# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53679"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:21:33.926Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:33.346Z"
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-2023-53679"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53679.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53679"
title: "wifi: mt7601u: fix an integer underflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mt7601u: fix an integer underflow\n\nFix an integer underflow that leads to a null pointer dereference in\n'mt7601u_rx_skb_from_seg()'. The variable 'dma_len' in the URB packet\ncould be manipulated, which could trigger an integer underflow of\n'seg_len' in 'mt7601u_rx_process_seg()'. This underflow subsequently\ncauses the 'bad_frame' checks in 'mt7601u_rx_skb_from_seg()' to be\nbypassed, eventually leading to a dereference of the pointer 'p', which\nis a null pointer.\n\nEnsure that 'dma_len' is greater than 'min_seg_len'.\n\nFound by a modified version of syzkaller.\n\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]\nCPU: 0 PID: 12 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Tainted: G        W  O      5.14.0+\n#139\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS\nrel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:skb_add_rx_frag+0x143/0x370\nCode: e2 07 83 c2 03 38 ca 7c 08 84 c9 0f 85 86 01 00 00 4c 8d 7d 08 44\n89 68 08 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 \u003c80\u003e 3c 02\n00 0f 85 cd 01 00 00 48 8b 45 08 a8 01 0f 85 3d 01 00 00\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900000cfc90 EFLAGS: 00010202\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff888115520dc0 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff8881118430c0 RDI: ffff8881118430f8\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000e09 R09: 0000000000000010\nR10: ffff888111843017 R11: ffffed1022308602 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 0000000000000e09 R14: 0000000000000010 R15: 0000000000000008\nFS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88811a800000(0000)\nknlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 000000004035af40 CR3: 00000001157f2000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n mt7601u_rx_tasklet+0xc73/0x1270\n ? mt7601u_submit_rx_buf.isra.0+0x510/0x510\n ? tasklet_action_common.isra.0+0x79/0x2f0\n tasklet_action_common.isra.0+0x206/0x2f0\n __do_softirq+0x1b5/0x880\n ? tasklet_unlock+0x30/0x30\n run_ksoftirqd+0x26/0x50\n smpboot_thread_fn+0x34f/0x7d0\n ? smpboot_register_percpu_thread+0x370/0x370\n kthread+0x3a1/0x480\n ? set_kthread_struct+0x120/0x120\n ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\nModules linked in: 88XXau(O) 88x2bu(O)\n---[ end trace 57f34f93b4da0f9b ]---\nRIP: 0010:skb_add_rx_frag+0x143/0x370\nCode: e2 07 83 c2 03 38 ca 7c 08 84 c9 0f 85 86 01 00 00 4c 8d 7d 08 44\n89 68 08 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 \u003c80\u003e 3c 02\n00 0f 85 cd 01 00 00 48 8b 45 08 a8 01 0f 85 3d 01 00 00\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900000cfc90 EFLAGS: 00010202\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff888115520dc0 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff8881118430c0 RDI: ffff8881118430f8\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000e09 R09: 0000000000000010\nR10: ffff888111843017 R11: ffffed1022308602 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 0000000000000e09 R14: 0000000000000010 R15: 0000000000000008\nFS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88811a800000(0000)\nknlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 000000004035af40 CR3: 00000001157f2000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nPKRU: 55555554"
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