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Message-ID: <2025091557-CVE-2023-53185-2f8d@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:02:39 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53185: wifi: ath9k: don't allow to overwrite ENDPOINT0 attributes
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Description
===========
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.
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53185 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 2.6.35 with commit fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 and fixed in 4.14.322 with commit db8df00cd6d801b3abdb145201c2bdd1c665f585
Issue introduced in 2.6.35 with commit fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 and fixed in 4.19.291 with commit 9e3031eea2d45918dc44cbfc6a6029e82882916f
Issue introduced in 2.6.35 with commit fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 and fixed in 5.4.251 with commit 4dc3560561a08842b4a4c07ccc5a90e5067dbb5b
Issue introduced in 2.6.35 with commit fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 and fixed in 5.10.188 with commit 1044187e7249073f719ebbf9e5ffb4f16f99e555
Issue introduced in 2.6.35 with commit fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 and fixed in 5.15.121 with commit 95b4b940f0fb2873dcedad81699e869eb7581c85
Issue introduced in 2.6.35 with commit fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 and fixed in 6.1.39 with commit 09740fa9827cfbaf23ecd041e602a426f99be888
Issue introduced in 2.6.35 with commit fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 and fixed in 6.3.13 with commit 6a444dffb75238c47d2d852f12cf53f12ad2cba8
Issue introduced in 2.6.35 with commit fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 and fixed in 6.4.4 with commit be2a546c30fe8d72efa032bee612363bb75314bd
Issue introduced in 2.6.35 with commit fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 and fixed in 6.5 with commit 061b0cb9327b80d7a0f63a33e7c3e2a91a71f142
Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.
Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at
https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53185
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.
Affected files
==============
The file(s) affected by this issue are:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c
Mitigation
==========
The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db8df00cd6d801b3abdb145201c2bdd1c665f585
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e3031eea2d45918dc44cbfc6a6029e82882916f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4dc3560561a08842b4a4c07ccc5a90e5067dbb5b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1044187e7249073f719ebbf9e5ffb4f16f99e555
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95b4b940f0fb2873dcedad81699e869eb7581c85
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09740fa9827cfbaf23ecd041e602a426f99be888
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a444dffb75238c47d2d852f12cf53f12ad2cba8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be2a546c30fe8d72efa032bee612363bb75314bd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/061b0cb9327b80d7a0f63a33e7c3e2a91a71f142
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