CVE-2023-53729

soc: qcom: qmi_encdec: Restrict string length in decode

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Oct 22, 2025
Updated: Oct 15, 2026
Reserved: Oct 22, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

soc: qcom: qmi_encdec: Restrict string length in decode

The QMI TLV value for strings in a lot of qmi element info structures account for null terminated strings with MAX_LEN + 1. If a string is actually MAX_LEN + 1 length, this will cause an out of bounds access when the NULL character is appended in decoding.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Linux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before 6b58859e7c4ac357517a59f0801e8ce1b58a8ee2Affected 9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before 64c5e916fabe5ef7bef0210b8a59fa8941ee1b8eAffected 9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before 2ccab9f82772ead618689d17dbc6950d6bd1e741Affected 9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before b2f39b813d1eed4a522428d1e6acd7dfe9b81579Affected 9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before f6250ecb7fbb934b89539e7e2ba6c1d8555c0975Affected 9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before 22ee7c9c7f381be178b4457bc54530002e08e938Affected 9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before 8d207400fd6b79c92aeb2f33bb79f62dff904ea2Affected
LinuxLinux	4.16Affected before 4.16Not affected 4.19.295 through 4.19.Not affected 5.4.257 through 5.4.Not affected 5.10.195 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.132 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.54 through 6.1.Not affected 6.5.4 through 6.5.Not affected 6.6 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before 6b58859e7c4ac357517a59f0801e8ce1b58a8ee2Affected
9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before 64c5e916fabe5ef7bef0210b8a59fa8941ee1b8eAffected
9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before 2ccab9f82772ead618689d17dbc6950d6bd1e741Affected
9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before b2f39b813d1eed4a522428d1e6acd7dfe9b81579Affected
9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before f6250ecb7fbb934b89539e7e2ba6c1d8555c0975Affected
9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before 22ee7c9c7f381be178b4457bc54530002e08e938Affected
9b8a11e82615274d4133aab3cf5aa1c59191f0a2 to before 8d207400fd6b79c92aeb2f33bb79f62dff904ea2Affected

LinuxLinux

4.16Affected
before 4.16Not affected
4.19.295 through 4.19.*Not affected
5.4.257 through 5.4.*Not affected
5.10.195 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.132 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.54 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.5.4 through 6.5.*Not affected
6.6 and laterNot affected

References

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