CVE-2023-53729

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soc: qcom: qmi_encdec: Restrict string length in decode The QMI TLV value for strings in a lot of qmi element info structures account for null terminated strings with MAX_LEN + 1. If a string is actually MAX_LEN + 1 length, this will cause an out of bounds access when the NULL character is appended in decoding.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6250ecb7fbb934b89539e7e2ba6c1d8555c0975

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2f39b813d1eed4a522428d1e6acd7dfe9b81579

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d207400fd6b79c92aeb2f33bb79f62dff904ea2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b58859e7c4ac357517a59f0801e8ce1b58a8ee2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64c5e916fabe5ef7bef0210b8a59fa8941ee1b8e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ccab9f82772ead618689d17dbc6950d6bd1e741

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22ee7c9c7f381be178b4457bc54530002e08e938

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-22

Updated: 2026-08-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024