CVE-2023-53185

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53185
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53185.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53185
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-15T14:04:37.921Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:33:01.113831Z
Summary
wifi: ath9k: don't allow to overwrite ENDPOINT0 attributes
Details

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

wifi: ath9k: don't allow to overwrite ENDPOINT0 attributes

A bad USB device is able to construct a service connection response message with target endpoint being ENDPOINT0 which is reserved for HTCCTRLRSVD_SVC and should not be modified to be used for any other services.

Reject such service connection responses.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53185.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08
Fixed
db8df00cd6d801b3abdb145201c2bdd1c665f585
Fixed
9e3031eea2d45918dc44cbfc6a6029e82882916f
Fixed
4dc3560561a08842b4a4c07ccc5a90e5067dbb5b
Fixed
1044187e7249073f719ebbf9e5ffb4f16f99e555
Fixed
95b4b940f0fb2873dcedad81699e869eb7581c85
Fixed
09740fa9827cfbaf23ecd041e602a426f99be888
Fixed
6a444dffb75238c47d2d852f12cf53f12ad2cba8
Fixed
be2a546c30fe8d72efa032bee612363bb75314bd
Fixed
061b0cb9327b80d7a0f63a33e7c3e2a91a71f142

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53185.json"