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CVE-2023-53641

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2023
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: fix memory leak of remain_skbs

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: fix memory leak of remain_skbs hif_dev->remain_skb is allocated and used exclusively in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(). It is implied that an allocated remain_skb is processed and subsequently freed (in error paths) only during the next call of ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(). So, if the urbs are deallocated between those two calls due to the device deinitialization or suspend, it is possible that ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream() is not called next time and the allocated remain_skb is leaked. Our local Syzkaller instance was able to trigger that. remain_skb makes sense when receiving two consecutive urbs which are logically linked together, i.e. a specific data field from the first skb indicates a cached skb to be allocated, memcpy'd with some data and subsequently processed in the next call to ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(). Urbs deallocation supposedly makes that link irrelevant so we need to free the cached skb in those cases. Fix the leak by introducing a function to explicitly free remain_skb (if it is not NULL) when the rx urbs have been deallocated. remain_skb is NULL when it has not been allocated at all (hif_dev struct is kzalloced) or when it has been processed in next call to ath9k_hif_usb_rx_stream(). Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

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
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08affectedgit6719e3797ec52cd144c8a5ba8aaab36674800585UnavailableNone listed
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08affectedgitd9899318660791141ea6002fda5577b2c5d7386eUnavailableNone listed
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08affectedgit320d760a35273aa815d58b57e4fd9ba5279a3489UnavailableNone listed
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08affectedgit59073060fe0950c6ecbe12bdc06469dcac62128dUnavailableNone listed
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08affectedgit9b9356a3014123f0ce4b50d9278c1265173150abUnavailableNone listed
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08affectedgitf0931fc8f4b6847c72e170d2326861c0a081d680UnavailableNone listed
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08affectedgit8f02d538878c9b1501f624595eb22ee4e5e0ff84UnavailableNone listed
fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08affectedgit7654cc03eb699297130b693ec34e25f77b17c947UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
2.6.35affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver2.6.35UnavailableNone listed
4.19.283unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.19.*None listed
5.4.243unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.180unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.15.111unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.28unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.2.15unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.2.*None listed
6.3.2unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.3.*None listed
6.4unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed