CVE-2023-53185

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

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 15, 2025
Updated: May 11, 2026
Reserved: Sep 15, 2025

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before db8df00cd6d801b3abdb145201c2bdd1c665f585Affected fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 9e3031eea2d45918dc44cbfc6a6029e82882916fAffected fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 4dc3560561a08842b4a4c07ccc5a90e5067dbb5bAffected fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 1044187e7249073f719ebbf9e5ffb4f16f99e555Affected fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 95b4b940f0fb2873dcedad81699e869eb7581c85Affected fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 09740fa9827cfbaf23ecd041e602a426f99be888Affected fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 6a444dffb75238c47d2d852f12cf53f12ad2cba8Affected fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before be2a546c30fe8d72efa032bee612363bb75314bdAffected fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 061b0cb9327b80d7a0f63a33e7c3e2a91a71f142Affected
LinuxLinux	2.6.35Affected before 2.6.35Not affected 4.14.322 through 4.14.Not affected 4.19.291 through 4.19.Not affected 5.4.251 through 5.4.Not affected 5.10.188 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.121 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.39 through 6.1.Not affected 6.3.13 through 6.3.Not affected 6.4.4 through 6.4.Not affected 6.5 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before db8df00cd6d801b3abdb145201c2bdd1c665f585Affected
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 9e3031eea2d45918dc44cbfc6a6029e82882916fAffected
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 4dc3560561a08842b4a4c07ccc5a90e5067dbb5bAffected
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 1044187e7249073f719ebbf9e5ffb4f16f99e555Affected
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 95b4b940f0fb2873dcedad81699e869eb7581c85Affected
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 09740fa9827cfbaf23ecd041e602a426f99be888Affected
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 6a444dffb75238c47d2d852f12cf53f12ad2cba8Affected
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before be2a546c30fe8d72efa032bee612363bb75314bdAffected
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 to before 061b0cb9327b80d7a0f63a33e7c3e2a91a71f142Affected

LinuxLinux

2.6.35Affected
before 2.6.35Not affected
4.14.322 through 4.14.*Not affected
4.19.291 through 4.19.*Not affected
5.4.251 through 5.4.*Not affected
5.10.188 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.121 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.39 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.3.13 through 6.3.*Not affected
6.4.4 through 6.4.*Not affected
6.5 and laterNot affected

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