CVE-2023-53226

medium

Published 2025-11-03 · Modified 2025-11-03

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mwifiex: Fix OOB and integer underflow when rx packets Make sure mwifiex_process_mgmt_packet, mwifiex_process_sta_rx_packet and mwifiex_process_uap_rx_packet, mwifiex_uap_queue_bridged_pkt and mwifiex_process_rx_packet not out-of-bounds access the skb->data buffer.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`6.5.3-1`
sid	Fixed	`6.5.3-1`
forky	Fixed	`6.5.3-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.10.197-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`6.1.55-1`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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