Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025
wifi: ath9k: don't allow to overwrite ENDPOINT0 attributes
CVE-2023-53185
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.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 2.6.35
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
9- git.kernel.org/stable/c/061b0cb9327b80d7a0f63a33e7c3e2a91a71f142mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/09740fa9827cfbaf23ecd041e602a426f99be888mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1044187e7249073f719ebbf9e5ffb4f16f99e555mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4dc3560561a08842b4a4c07ccc5a90e5067dbb5bmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a444dffb75238c47d2d852f12cf53f12ad2cba8mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/95b4b940f0fb2873dcedad81699e869eb7581c85mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e3031eea2d45918dc44cbfc6a6029e82882916fmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/be2a546c30fe8d72efa032bee612363bb75314bdmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/db8df00cd6d801b3abdb145201c2bdd1c665f585mitre
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