Bug 2401520 (CVE-2023-53554) - CVE-2023-53554 kernel: staging: ks7010: potential buffer overflow in ks_wlan_set_encode_ext()
Summary: CVE-2023-53554 kernel: staging: ks7010: potential buffer overflow in ks_wlan_...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53554
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-04 16:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-26 12:07 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-04 16:05:15 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-10-06 14:11:43 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025100448-CVE-2023-53554-3351@gregkh/T
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