CVE-2023-53840 — usb: early: xhci-dbc: Fix a potential out-of-bound memory access
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: early: xhci-dbc: Fix a potential out-of-bound memory access If xdbc_bulk_write() fails, the values in …
Published: 2025-12-09 · CVSS: Unscored
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: early: xhci-dbc: Fix a potential out-of-bound memory access If xdbc_bulk_write() fails, the values in 'buf' can be anything. So the string is not guaranteed to be NULL terminated when xdbc_trace() is called. Reserve an extra byte, which will be zeroed automatically because 'buf' is a static variable, in order to avoid troubles, should it happen.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7