CVE-2023-52530

HIGH

Linux Kernel 4.14-5.4.285 - Use-After-Free in mac80211 GTK Rekey Offload

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: fix potential key use-after-free When ieee80211_key_link() is called by ieee80211_gtk_rekey_add() but returns 0 due to KRACK protection (identical key reinstall), ieee80211_gtk_rekey_add() will still return a pointer into the key, in a potential use-after-free. This normally doesn't happen since it's only called by iwlwifi in case of WoWLAN rekey offload which has its own KRACK protection, but still better to fix, do that by returning an error code and converting that to success on the cfg80211 boundary only, leaving the error for bad callers of ieee80211_gtk_rekey_add().

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0023
EPSS Percentile 14.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (30)
Linux/Linux < 4.14
Linux/Linux 003aa22c9619b49efe950aca3aebd1235a04940d
Linux/Linux 2586fa0007dc6b7745da14250be7e3aae706b128
Linux/Linux 3.16.50 - 3.17
Linux/Linux 3.18.82 - 3.19
Linux/Linux 3.2.95 - 3.3
Linux/Linux 4.1.47 - 4.2
Linux/Linux 4.13.14 - 4.14
Linux/Linux 4.14
Linux/Linux 4.4.99 - 4.5
... and 20 more
Published Mar 02, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026