# 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-2023-53840"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T01:29:56.848Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:52:32.046Z"
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-2023-53840"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53840.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53840"
title: "usb: early: xhci-dbc: Fix a potential out-of-bound memory access"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: early: xhci-dbc: Fix a potential out-of-bound memory access\n\nIf xdbc_bulk_write() fails, the values in 'buf' can be anything. So the\nstring is not guaranteed to be NULL terminated when xdbc_trace() is called.\n\nReserve an extra byte, which will be zeroed automatically because 'buf' is\na static variable, in order to avoid troubles, should it happen."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"aeb9dd1de98c1a5f2007ea5d2a154c1244caf8a0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8fb0f13e45cf361fd06593d3cb2d89915cd3bd0"},{"version":"aeb9dd1de98c1a5f2007ea5d2a154c1244caf8a0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"351c8d8650d1ccc006255fa01f98b6c6496a02e5"},{"version":"aeb9dd1de98c1a5f2007ea5d2a154c1244caf8a0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df7c8aba7309f4dc55df94e06b67f576c0f52406"},{"version":"aeb9dd1de98c1a5f2007ea5d2a154c1244caf8a0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a4a97ab3db5c081eb6e7dba91306adefb461e0bd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"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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