# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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-2023-53589"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:44:04.047Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:31.264Z"
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-2023-53589"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53589.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53589"
title: "wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't trust firmware n_channels"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't trust firmware n_channels\n\nIf the firmware sends us a corrupted MCC response with\nn_channels much larger than the command response can be,\nwe might copy far too much (uninitialized) memory and\neven crash if the n_channels is large enough to make it\nrun out of the one page allocated for the FW response.\n\nFix that by checking the lengths. Doing a \u003c comparison\nwould be sufficient, but the firmware should be doing\nit correctly, so check more strictly."
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