UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53729

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53729

    Published: 22 Oct 2025Last Modified: 8 Oct 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-53729

    Summary:

    Details: 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-53729, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53729, https://git.kernel.org/linus/8d207400fd6b79c92aeb2f33bb79f62dff904ea2, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22ee7c9c7f381be178b4457bc54530002e08e938, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ccab9f82772ead618689d17dbc6950d6bd1e741, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64c5e916fabe5ef7bef0210b8a59fa8941ee1b8e, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b58859e7c4ac357517a59f0801e8ce1b58a8ee2, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d207400fd6b79c92aeb2f33bb79f62dff904ea2, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2f39b813d1eed4a522428d1e6acd7dfe9b81579, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6250ecb7fbb934b89539e7e2ba6c1d8555c0975

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe-edge

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1
    4.8.0-30.32~16.04.1
    4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1
    4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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