CVE-2023-53589
Estado: ModificadaMedia (5.5)—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't trust firmware n_channels
If the firmware sends us a corrupted MCC response with n_channels much larger than the command response can be, we might copy far too much (uninitialized) memory and even crash if the n_channels is large enough to make it run out of the one page allocated for the FW response.
Fix that by checking the lengths. Doing a < comparison would be sufficient, but the firmware should be doing it correctly, so check more strictly.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 5.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.23%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 13
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05ad5a4d421ce65652fcb24d46b7e273130240d6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/557ba100d8cf3661ff8d71c0b4a2cba8db555ec2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/682b6dc29d98e857e6ca4bbc077c7dc2899b7473
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c176f03350954b795322de0bfe1d7b514db41f45
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0d39bed9e95f27a246be91c5929254ac043ed30
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e519a404a5bbba37693cb10fa61794a5fce4fd9b
JSON original (NVD)
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