# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53717"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-22T13:23:50.161Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:50:29.770Z"
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-2023-53717"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53717.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53717"
title: "wifi: ath9k: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds write in ath9k_wmi_rsp_callback()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath9k: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds write in ath9k_wmi_rsp_callback()\n\nFix a stack-out-of-bounds write that occurs in a WMI response callback\nfunction that is called after a timeout occurs in ath9k_wmi_cmd().\nThe callback writes to wmi-\u003ecmd_rsp_buf, a stack-allocated buffer that\ncould no longer be valid when a timeout occurs. Set wmi-\u003elast_seq_id to\n0 when a timeout occurred.\n\nFound by a modified version of syzkaller.\n\nBUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx\nWrite of size 4\nCall Trace:\n memcpy\n ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx\n ath9k_htc_rx_msg\n ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb\n __usb_hcd_giveback_urb\n usb_hcd_giveback_urb\n dummy_timer\n call_timer_fn\n run_timer_softirq\n __do_softirq\n irq_exit_rcu\n sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89a33c3c847b19b19205cde1d924df2a6c70d8eb"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae4933b4f17de8e2b7ff6f91b17d3b0099a6d6bc"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf6dc175a2b53098a69db1236d9d53982f4b1bc0"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"78b56b0a613a87b61290b95be497fdfe2fe58aa6"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1af7eacfad45149c54893a8a9df9e92ef89f0a90"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f28513d9520184059530c01a9f928a1b3809d3f"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"554048a72d7ecfdd58cc1bfb56e0a1864e64e82c"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8a2f35b9830692f7a616f2f627f943bc748af13a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.35","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.35"},{"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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