Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Wifi: ath9k – Do not allow overwriting of ENDPOINT0 attributes A malicious USB device can construct a service connection response message with the target endpoint being ENDPOINT0, which is reserved for HTCCTRLRSVDSVC and should n...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Wifi: ath9k – Avoid referencing uninitialized memory in ath9kwmictrlrx. For the same reasons described in commit b383e8abed41 “Wifi: ath9k – Avoid uninitialized memory reading in ath9khtcrxmsg”, ath9khtcrxmsg should validate the...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Wifi: ath9k: hifusb: fixed a memory leak of urbs in ath9khifusbdealloctxurbs. Syzkaller reported a well-known leak of urbs in ath9khifusbdealloctxurbs. The cause of the leak is that usbgeturb is called, but usbfreeurb or usbputur...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Wifi: ath9k: Delay all operations related to ath9kwmieventtasklet until initialization is complete. The ath9kwmieventtasklet function used in ath9khtc assumes that all data structures have been fully initialized by the time it...

Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2026-007251)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-007251 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: delay all of ath9kwmieventtasklet until init is complete The ath9kwmieventtasklet us...

Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: CVE-2022-50453: gpiolib: cdev: fix NULL-pointer dereferences bsc1250887. CVE-2023-53794: cifs: fix session state check in reconnect to avoid use-after-free issue...

CVE-2023-54300 wifi: ath9k: avoid referencing uninit memory in ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: avoid referencing uninit memory in ath9kwmictrlrx For the reasons also described in commit b383e8abed41 "wifi: ath9k: avoid uninit memory read in ath9khtcrxmsg", ath9khtcrxmsg should validate pktlen before accessing...

CVE-2022-50881

CVE-2022-50881 concerns the Linux kernel’s wifi driver ath9k (ath9k_htc) and describes a use-after-free in ath9k_destroy_wmi() triggered during usb disconnect handling. The root cause is access to drv_priv after ieee80211_free_hw() frees hardware in ath9k_htc_hw_deinit(), leading to a use-after-f...

CVE-2022-50740

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: hifusb: fix memory leak of urbs in ath9khifusbdealloctxurbs Syzkaller reports a long-known leak of urbs in ath9khifusbdealloctxurbs. The cause of the leak is that usbgeturb is called but usbfreeurb or usbputurb is no...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53717

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds write in ath9kwmirspcallback Fix a stack-out-of-bounds write that occurs in a WMI response callback function that is called after a timeout occurs in ath9kwmicmd. The callback writes...

CVE-2023-53717

CVE-2023-53717 affects the ath9k wireless driver in the Linux kernel, where a WMI response callback could write to a stack-allocated buffer after a timeout, risking a stack-out-of-bounds write. The issue is documented as fixed in SUSE kernel live patches (e.g., SUSE-SU-2026:0200-1, SUSE-SU-2026:0...

CVE-2023-53641 wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: fix memory leak of remain_skbs

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: hifusb: fix memory leak of remainskbs hifdev-remainskb is allocated and used exclusively in ath9khifusbrxstream. It is implied that an allocated remainskb is processed and subsequently freed in error paths only durin...

Unity Linux 20.1070a Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-386613)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-386613 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: add range check for connrspepid in htcconnectservice I found the following bug in my...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53185

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - wifi: ath9k: don't allow to overwrite ENDPOINT0 attributes A bad USB device is able to construct a service connection response message with target endpoint bein...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53185

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: don't allow to overwrite ENDPOINT0 attributes A bad USB device is able to construct a service connection response message with target endpoint being ENDPOINT0 which is reserved for HTCCTRLRSVDSVC and should not be...

CVE-2023-53185 wifi: ath9k: don't allow to overwrite ENDPOINT0 attributes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: don't allow to overwrite ENDPOINT0 attributes A bad USB device is able to construct a service connection response message with target endpoint being ENDPOINT0 which is reserved for HTCCTRLRSVDSVC and should not be...

Security update for kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_3

This update for kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0Update3 fixes the following issues: CVE-2024-53042: ipv4: iptunnel: Fix suspicious RCU usage warning in iptunnelinitflow bsc1233678 CVE-2024-53156: wifi: ath9k: add range check for connrspepid in htcconnectservice bsc1234847 CVE-2024-50115: KVM: nSVM:...

SUSE-SU-2025:20368-1 Security update for kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_2

This update for kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RTUpdate2 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-53042: ipv4: iptunnel: Fix suspicious RCU usage warning in iptunnelinitflow bsc1233678 - CVE-2024-53156: wifi: ath9k: add range check for connrspepid in htcconnectservice bsc1234847 - CVE-2024-50115: KVM:...

SUSE-SU-2025:01611-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 34 for SLE 15 SP4)

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-15040024144 fixes one issue. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2024-53156: wifi: ath9k: add range check for connrspepid in htcconnectservice bsc1234847...