CVE-2023-53554CWE-787

CVE-2023-53554

High · published October 4, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

staging: ks7010: potential buffer overflow in ks_wlan_set_encode_ext()

The "exc->key_len" is a u16 that comes from the user. If it's over

IW_ENCODING_TOKEN_MAX (64) that could lead to memory corruption.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00182 · 7.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2025-10-04T20:15Z
Affected products (10)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.12, < 4.14.3224.14.322
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.15, < 4.19.2914.19.291
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20, < 5.4.2535.4.253
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.1905.10.190
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1245.15.124
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.436.1.43
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.4.86.4.8
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 15:16Z
    staging: ks7010: potential buffer overflow in ks_wlan_set_encode_ext()
    cvelistv5