CVE-2023-53028: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_add()" This reverts commit…

PriorityP420medium5.5CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH

EPSS

0.19%

8.8th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_add()" This reverts commit 13e5afd3d773c6fc6ca2b89027befaaaa1ea7293. ieee80211_if_free() is already called from free_netdev(ndev) because ndev->priv_destructor == ieee80211_if_free syzbot reported: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000004: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000020-0x0000000000000027] CPU: 0 PID: 10041 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-syzkaller-00388-g55b98837e37d #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022 RIP: 0010:pcpu_get_page_chunk mm/percpu.c:262 [inline] RIP: 0010:pcpu_chunk_addr_search mm/percpu.c:1619 [inline] RIP: 0010:free_percpu mm/percpu.c:2271 [inline] RIP: 0010:free_percpu+0x186/0x10f0 mm/percpu.c:2254 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 RSP: 0018:ffffc90004ba7068 EFLAGS: 00010002 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88823ffe2b80 RCX: 0000000000000004 RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff81c1f4e7 RDI: 0000000000000020 RBP: ffffe8fffe8fc220 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 1ffffffff2179ab2 R12: ffff8880b983d000 R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000607f450fc220 R15: ffff88823ffe2988 FS: 00007fcb349de700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000001b32220000 CR3: 000000004914f000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: netdev_run_todo+0x6bf/0x1100 net/core/dev.c:10352 ieee80211_register_hw+0x2663/0x4040 net/mac80211/main.c:1411 mac80211_hwsim_new_radio+0x2537/0x4d80 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:45

Affected

18 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	linux	< linux 6.1.8-1 (bookworm)	linux 6.1.8-1 (bookworm)
linux	linux	—	—
linux	linux	>= 13e5afd3d773c6fc6ca2b89027befaaaa1ea7293 < 80f8a66dede0a4b4e9e846765a97809c6fe49ce5	80f8a66dede0a4b4e9e846765a97809c6fe49ce5
linux	linux	>= 2e32f1299814e8aa2e75aa58704543a36ea3e201 < 982c8b1e95c088f5d8f65967ec25be66e961401c	982c8b1e95c088f5d8f65967ec25be66e961401c
linux	linux	>= 5.10.163 < 5.10.165	5.10.165
linux	linux	>= 5.15.86 < 5.15.90	5.15.90
linux	linux	>= 6.0.16 < 6.1	6.1
linux	linux	>= 6.1.2 < 6.1.8	6.1.8
linux	linux	>= 9a50a7f64243bd21a84353c371f3977b9ffd9fa5 < effecd8d116d3d3a28b4f628e61bba8d318fdfcf	effecd8d116d3d3a28b4f628e61bba8d318fdfcf
linux	linux	>= b2c0b94f48373ee743a4d63825a9d52364418837 < 71e5cd1018d345e649e63f74a56c1897f99db7e9	71e5cd1018d345e649e63f74a56c1897f99db7e9
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 5.10.178-1	5.10.178-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.1.8-1	6.1.8-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.1.8-1	6.1.8-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.1.8-1	6.1.8-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 5.10.163 < 5.10.165	5.10.165
linux	linux_kernel	>= 5.15.86 < 5.15.90	5.15.90
linux	linux_kernel	>= 6.0.16 < 6.1	6.1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 6.1.2 < 6.1.8	6.1.8

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

osv5.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM

vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM

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