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CVE-2023-53185

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 cons…

Impact

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 HTC_CTRL_RSVD_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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 2.6.35 before 4.14.322
from 4.15 before 4.19.291
from 4.20 before 5.4.251
from 5.5 before 5.10.188
from 5.11 before 5.15.121
from 5.16 before 6.1.39

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