CVE-2023-52531
Published: Mar 2, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix a memory corruption issue A few lines above, space is kzalloc()'ed for: sizeof(struct iwl_nvm_data) + sizeof(struct ieee80211_channel) + sizeof(struct ieee80211_rate) 'mvm->nvm_data' is a 'struct iwl_nvm_data', so it is fine. At the end of this structure, there is the 'channels' flex array. Each element is of type 'struct ieee80211_channel'. So only 1 element is allocated in this array. When doing: mvm->nvm_data->bands[0].channels = mvm->nvm_data->channels; We point at the first element of the 'channels' flex array. So this is fine. However, when doing: mvm->nvm_data->bands[0].bitrates = (void *)((u8 *)mvm->nvm_data->channels + 1); because of the "(u8 *)" cast, we add only 1 to the address of the beginning of the flex array. It is likely that we want point at the 'struct ieee80211_rate' allocated just after. Remove the spurious casting so that the pointer arithmetic works as expected.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 8ca151b568b67a7b72dcfc6ee6ea7c107ddd795c - < 7c8faa31080342aec4903c9acb20caf82fcca1efaffected 8ca151b568b67a7b72dcfc6ee6ea7c107ddd795c - < 6b3223449c959a8be94a1f042288059e40fcccb0affected 8ca151b568b67a7b72dcfc6ee6ea7c107ddd795c - < f06cdd8d4ba5252986f51f80cc30263636397128affected 8ca151b568b67a7b72dcfc6ee6ea7c107ddd795c - < 8ba438ef3cacc4808a63ed0ce24d4f0942cfe55d |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.9unaffected 0 - < 3.9unaffected 5.15.135 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.57 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.5.7 - <= 6.5.*+1 more versions |
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