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
2026-04-11T12:46:42.521009Z
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"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.6.35
Fixed
4.14.322
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.15.0
Fixed
4.19.291
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.251
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.188
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.121
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.39
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.3.13
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.4.0
Fixed
6.4.4

Database specific

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