CVE-2023-52531

HIGH

Linux Kernel 3.9-5.15.135 - Out-of-bounds Write in iwlwifi mvm NVM Data Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.5%
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-787
Status published
Products (12)
Linux/Linux < 3.9
Linux/Linux 3.9
Linux/Linux 5.15.135 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.57 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.5.7 - 6.5.*
Linux/Linux 6.6
Linux/Linux 8ca151b568b67a7b72dcfc6ee6ea7c107ddd795c - 6b3223449c959a8be94a1f042288059e40fcccb0
Linux/Linux 8ca151b568b67a7b72dcfc6ee6ea7c107ddd795c - 7c8faa31080342aec4903c9acb20caf82fcca1ef
Linux/Linux 8ca151b568b67a7b72dcfc6ee6ea7c107ddd795c - 8ba438ef3cacc4808a63ed0ce24d4f0942cfe55d
Linux/Linux 8ca151b568b67a7b72dcfc6ee6ea7c107ddd795c - f06cdd8d4ba5252986f51f80cc30263636397128
... and 2 more
Published Mar 02, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026