# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

## Instructions for the operator's AI
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- Obtain operator approval before production changes. No commands or remediation were generated. This historical snapshot does not establish current applicability, a released fix or exploitation; no network or model call generated this brief.

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53153"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:03:21.590Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:39:28.381Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53153"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53153.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53153"
title: "wifi: cfg80211: Fix use after free for wext"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: cfg80211: Fix use after free for wext\n\nKey information in wext.connect is not reset on (re)connect and can hold\ndata from a previous connection.\n\nReset key data to avoid that drivers or mac80211 incorrectly detect a\nWEP connection request and access the freed or already reused memory.\n\nAdditionally optimize cfg80211_sme_connect() and avoid an useless\nschedule of conn_work."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fffd0934b9390f34bec45762192b7edd3b12b4b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66af4a2ab1d65d556d638cb9555a3b823c2557a9"},{"version":"fffd0934b9390f34bec45762192b7edd3b12b4b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2a92b3e9d8e03ee3f9ee407fc46a9b4bd02d8b6"},{"version":"fffd0934b9390f34bec45762192b7edd3b12b4b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f1959c17d4cb5b74af6fc31dc787e1dc3e4f6e2"},{"version":"fffd0934b9390f34bec45762192b7edd3b12b4b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2cfe78619b0de6d2da773978bc2d22797212eaa7"},{"version":"fffd0934b9390f34bec45762192b7edd3b12b4b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd081afd21eb35b968b0330700c43ec94986e1c4"},{"version":"fffd0934b9390f34bec45762192b7edd3b12b4b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22dfb21bf1cd876616d45cda1bc6daa89eec6747"},{"version":"fffd0934b9390f34bec45762192b7edd3b12b4b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4b6a138efb8a32507b8946104e32cb926308da7"},{"version":"fffd0934b9390f34bec45762192b7edd3b12b4b5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"015b8cc5e7c4d7bb671f1984d7b7338c310b185b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.32","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.32"},{"version":"4.14.308","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.276","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.235","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.173","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.99","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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