CVE-2023-53028
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
27/03/2025
Last modified:
04/08/2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
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Revert "wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_add()"<br />
<br />
This reverts commit 13e5afd3d773c6fc6ca2b89027befaaaa1ea7293.<br />
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ieee80211_if_free() is already called from free_netdev(ndev)<br />
because ndev->priv_destructor == ieee80211_if_free<br />
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syzbot reported:<br />
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general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000004: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN<br />
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000020-0x0000000000000027]<br />
CPU: 0 PID: 10041 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-syzkaller-00388-g55b98837e37d #0<br />
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022<br />
RIP: 0010:pcpu_get_page_chunk mm/percpu.c:262 [inline]<br />
RIP: 0010:pcpu_chunk_addr_search mm/percpu.c:1619 [inline]<br />
RIP: 0010:free_percpu mm/percpu.c:2271 [inline]<br />
RIP: 0010:free_percpu+0x186/0x10f0 mm/percpu.c:2254<br />
Code: 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 f5 0e 00 00 48 8b 3b 48 01 ef e8 cf b3 0b 00 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8d 78 20 48 89 f9 48 c1 e9 03 3c 11 00 0f 85 3b 0e 00 00 48 8b 58 20 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc<br />
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004ba7068 EFLAGS: 00010002<br />
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88823ffe2b80 RCX: 0000000000000004<br />
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff81c1f4e7 RDI: 0000000000000020<br />
RBP: ffffe8fffe8fc220 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000<br />
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 1ffffffff2179ab2 R12: ffff8880b983d000<br />
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000607f450fc220 R15: ffff88823ffe2988<br />
FS: 00007fcb349de700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000<br />
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033<br />
CR2: 0000001b32220000 CR3: 000000004914f000 CR4: 00000000003506f0<br />
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000<br />
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400<br />
Call Trace:<br />
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netdev_run_todo+0x6bf/0x1100 net/core/dev.c:10352<br />
ieee80211_register_hw+0x2663/0x4040 net/mac80211/main.c:1411<br />
mac80211_hwsim_new_radio+0x2537/0x4d80 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:4583<br />
hwsim_new_radio_nl+0xa09/0x10f0 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:5176<br />
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x1e6/0x2d0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:968<br />
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1048 [inline]<br />
genl_rcv_msg+0x4ff/0x7e0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1065<br />
netlink_rcv_skb+0x165/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2564<br />
genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1076<br />
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1330 [inline]<br />
netlink_unicast+0x547/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1356<br />
netlink_sendmsg+0x91b/0xe10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1932<br />
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]<br />
sock_sendmsg+0xd3/0x120 net/socket.c:734<br />
____sys_sendmsg+0x712/0x8c0 net/socket.c:2476<br />
___sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2530<br />
__sys_sendmsg+0xf7/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2559<br />
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]<br />
do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Impact
Base Score 3.x
7.80
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.10.163 (including) | 5.10.165 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.15.86 (including) | 5.15.90 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.0.16 (including) | 6.1 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.1.2 (including) | 6.1.8 (excluding) |
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