CVE-2023-52531
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2023
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix a memory corruption issue
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.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8ca151b568b67a7b72dcfc6ee6ea7c107ddd795c | affected | git | 7c8faa31080342aec4903c9acb20caf82fcca1ef | Unavailable | None listed |
| 8ca151b568b67a7b72dcfc6ee6ea7c107ddd795c | affected | git | 6b3223449c959a8be94a1f042288059e40fcccb0 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 8ca151b568b67a7b72dcfc6ee6ea7c107ddd795c | affected | git | f06cdd8d4ba5252986f51f80cc30263636397128 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 8ca151b568b67a7b72dcfc6ee6ea7c107ddd795c | affected | git | 8ba438ef3cacc4808a63ed0ce24d4f0942cfe55d | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 3.9 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.15.135 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.57 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.5.7 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.5.* | None listed |
| 6.6 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |