CVE-2023-53554: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.12, before 4.14.322 (fixed in 4.14.322); from 4.15, before 4.19.291 (fixed in 4.19.291); from 4.20, before 5.4.253 (fixed in 5.4.253); from 5.5, before 5.10.190 (fixed in 5.10.190); from 5.11, before 5.15.124 (fixed in 5.15.124); from 5.16, before 6.1.43 (fixed in 6.1.43); …

Published 2025-10-04. Last modified 2026-08-04.