DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52531
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.
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:11 | linux | 6.0.8-1, *, 6.18.5-1 |
| Debian:14 | linux | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:13 | linux | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:12 | linux | 6.1.38-4, 6.1.52-1, 6.1.55-1 |
Timeline
- Mar 2, 2024 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated