Upstream information

CVE-2023-53717 at MITRE

Description

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

wifi: ath9k: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds write in ath9k_wmi_rsp_callback()

Fix a stack-out-of-bounds write that occurs in a WMI response callback
function that is called after a timeout occurs in ath9k_wmi_cmd().
The callback writes to wmi->cmd_rsp_buf, a stack-allocated buffer that
could no longer be valid when a timeout occurs. Set wmi->last_seq_id to
0 when a timeout occurred.

Found by a modified version of syzkaller.

BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx
Write of size 4
Call Trace:
memcpy
ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx
ath9k_htc_rx_msg
ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb
__usb_hcd_giveback_urb
usb_hcd_giveback_urb
dummy_timer
call_timer_fn
run_timer_softirq
__do_softirq
irq_exit_rcu
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1252560 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Oct 23 17:27:10 2025
CVE page last modified: Thu Oct 23 17:27:10 2025