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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53213" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:21:41.433Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:13:06.440Z" 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-2023-53213" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53213.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53213" title: "wifi: brcmfmac: slab-out-of-bounds read in brcmf_get_assoc_ies()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: brcmfmac: slab-out-of-bounds read in brcmf_get_assoc_ies()\n\nFix a slab-out-of-bounds read that occurs in kmemdup() called from\nbrcmf_get_assoc_ies().\nThe bug could occur when assoc_info-\u003ereq_len, data from a URB provided\nby a USB device, is bigger than the size of buffer which is defined as\nWL_EXTRA_BUF_MAX.\n\nAdd the size check for req_len/resp_len of assoc_info.\n\nFound by a modified version of syzkaller.\n\n[ 46.592467][ T7] ==================================================================\n[ 46.594687][ T7] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kmemdup+0x3e/0x50\n[ 46.596572][ T7] Read of size 3014656 at addr ffff888019442000 by task kworker/0:1/7\n[ 46.598575][ T7]\n[ 46.599157][ T7] CPU: 0 PID: 7 Comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G O 5.14.0+ #145\n[ 46.601333][ T7] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n[ 46.604360][ T7] Workqueue: events brcmf_fweh_event_worker\n[ 46.605943][ T7] Call Trace:\n[ 46.606584][ T7] dump_stack_lvl+0x8e/0xd1\n[ 46.607446][ T7] print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0x93/0x334\n[ 46.608610][ T7] ? kmemdup+0x3e/0x50\n[ 46.609341][ T7] kasan_report.cold+0x79/0xd5\n[ 46.610151][ T7] ? kmemdup+0x3e/0x50\n[ 46.610796][ T7] kasan_check_range+0x14e/0x1b0\n[ 46.611691][ T7] memcpy+0x20/0x60\n[ 46.612323][ T7] kmemdup+0x3e/0x50\n[ 46.612987][ T7] brcmf_get_assoc_ies+0x967/0xf60\n[ 46.613904][ T7] ? brcmf_notify_vif_event+0x3d0/0x3d0\n[ 46.614831][ T7] ? lock_chain_count+0x20/0x20\n[ 46.615683][ T7] ? mark_lock.part.0+0xfc/0x2770\n[ 46.616552][ T7] ? lock_chain_count+0x20/0x20\n[ 46.617409][ T7] ? mark_lock.part.0+0xfc/0x2770\n[ 46.618244][ T7] ? lock_chain_count+0x20/0x20\n[ 46.619024][ T7] brcmf_bss_connect_done.constprop.0+0x241/0x2e0\n[ 46.620019][ T7] ? brcmf_parse_configure_security.isra.0+0x2a0/0x2a0\n[ 46.620818][ T7] ? __lock_acquire+0x181f/0x5790\n[ 46.621462][ T7] brcmf_notify_connect_status+0x448/0x1950\n[ 46.622134][ T7] ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0\n[ 46.622736][ T7] ? brcmf_cfg80211_join_ibss+0x7b0/0x7b0\n[ 46.623390][ T7] ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x110\n[ 46.623962][ T7] ? brcmf_fweh_event_worker+0x19f/0xc60\n[ 46.624603][ T7] ? mark_held_locks+0x9f/0xe0\n[ 46.625145][ T7] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x3e0/0x3e0\n[ 46.625871][ T7] ? brcmf_cfg80211_join_ibss+0x7b0/0x7b0\n[ 46.626545][ T7] brcmf_fweh_call_event_handler.isra.0+0x90/0x100\n[ 46.627338][ T7] brcmf_fweh_event_worker+0x557/0xc60\n[ 46.627962][ T7] ? brcmf_fweh_call_event_handler.isra.0+0x100/0x100\n[ 46.628736][ T7] ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0xa1/0xd0\n[ 46.629396][ T7] ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0\n[ 46.629970][ T7] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x273/0x3e0\n[ 46.630649][ T7] process_one_work+0x92b/0x1460\n[ 46.631205][ T7] ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x330/0x330\n[ 46.631821][ T7] ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90\n[ 46.632347][ T7] worker_thread+0x95/0xe00\n[ 46.632832][ T7] ? __kthread_parkme+0x115/0x1e0\n[ 46.633393][ T7] ? process_one_work+0x1460/0x1460\n[ 46.633957][ T7] kthread+0x3a1/0x480\n[ 46.634369][ T7] ? set_kthread_struct+0x120/0x120\n[ 46.634933][ T7] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n[ 46.635431][ T7]\n[ 46.635687][ T7] Allocated by task 7:\n[ 46.636151][ T7] kasan_save_stack+0x1b/0x40\n[ 46.636628][ T7] __kasan_kmalloc+0x7c/0x90\n[ 46.637108][ T7] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x19e/0x330\n[ 46.637696][ T7] brcmf_cfg80211_attach+0x4a0/0x4040\n[ 46.638275][ T7] brcmf_attach+0x389/0xd40\n[ 46.638739][ T7] brcmf_usb_probe+0x12de/0x1690\n[ 46.639279][ T7] usb_probe_interface+0x2aa/0x760\n[ 46.639820][ T7] really_probe+0x205/0xb70\n[ 46.640342][ T7] __driver_probe_device+0\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cf2b448852abd47cee21007b8313fbf962bf3c9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac5305e5d227b9af3aae25fa83380d3ff0225b73"},{"version":"cf2b448852abd47cee21007b8313fbf962bf3c9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39f9bd880abac6068bedb24a4e16e7bd26bf92da"},{"version":"cf2b448852abd47cee21007b8313fbf962bf3c9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"425eea395f1f5ae349fb55f7fe51d833a5324bfe"},{"version":"cf2b448852abd47cee21007b8313fbf962bf3c9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"549825602e3e6449927ca1ea1a08fd89868439df"},{"version":"cf2b448852abd47cee21007b8313fbf962bf3c9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"936a23293bbb3332bdf4cdb9c1496e80cb0bc2c8"},{"version":"cf2b448852abd47cee21007b8313fbf962bf3c9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e29661611e6e71027159a3140e818ef3b99f32dd"},{"version":"cf2b448852abd47cee21007b8313fbf962bf3c9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"228186629ea970cc78b7d7d5f593f2d32fddf9f6"},{"version":"cf2b448852abd47cee21007b8313fbf962bf3c9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"21bee3e649d87f78fe8aef6ae02edd3d6f310fd0"},{"version":"cf2b448852abd47cee21007b8313fbf962bf3c9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0da40e018fd034d87c9460123fa7f897b69fdee7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.37","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.37"},{"version":"4.14.315","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.283","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.243","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.180","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.27","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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