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CVE-2023-53532
published 2025-10-01

CVE-2023-53532: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: fix deinitialization of firmware resources Currently, in…

PriorityP421medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.14%
3.4th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: fix deinitialization of firmware resources Currently, in ath11k_ahb_fw_resources_init(), iommu domain mapping is done only for the chipsets having fixed firmware memory. Also, for such chipsets, mapping is done only if it does not have TrustZone support. During deinitialization, only if TrustZone support is not there, iommu is unmapped back. However, for non fixed firmware memory chipsets, TrustZone support is not there and this makes the condition check to true and it tries to unmap the memory which was not mapped during initialization. This leads to the following trace - [ 83.198790] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 [ 83.259537] Modules linked in: ath11k_ahb ath11k qmi_helpers .. snip .. [ 83.280286] pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 83.287228] pc : __iommu_unmap+0x30/0x140 [ 83.293907] lr : iommu_unmap+0x5c/0xa4 [ 83.298072] sp : ffff80000b3abad0 .. snip .. [ 83.369175] Call trace: [ 83.376282] __iommu_unmap+0x30/0x140 [ 83.378541] iommu_unmap+0x5c/0xa4 [ 83.382360] ath11k_ahb_fw_resource_deinit.part.12+0x2c/0xac [ath11k_ahb] [ 83.385666] ath11k_ahb_free_resources+0x140/0x17c [ath11k_ahb] [ 83.392521] ath11k_ahb_shutdown+0x34/0x40 [ath11k_ahb] [ 83.398248] platform_shutdown+0x20/0x2c [ 83.403455] device_shutdown+0x16c/0x1c4 [ 83.407621] kernel_restart_prepare+0x34/0x3c [ 83.411529] kernel_restart+0x14/0x74 [ 83.415781] __do_sys_reboot+0x1c4/0x22c [ 83.419427] __arm64_sys_reboot+0x1c/0x24 [ 83.423420] invoke_syscall+0x44/0xfc [ 83.427326] el0_svc_common.constprop.3+0xac/0xe8 [ 83.430974] do_el0_svc+0xa0/0xa8 [ 83.435659] el0_svc+0x1c/0x44 [ 83.438957] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x60/0x144 [ 83.441910] el0t_64_sync+0x15c/0x160 [ 83.446343] Code: aa0103f4 f9400001 f90027a1 d2800001 (f94006a0) [ 83.449903] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- This can be reproduced by probing an AHB chipset which is not

Affected

12 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)
linuxlinux——
linuxlinux>= f9eec4947add999e1251bf14365a48a655b786a4 < 0324300dce3412d4737b4ec5898d0188495a7caa0324300dce3412d4737b4ec5898d0188495a7caa
linuxlinux>= f9eec4947add999e1251bf14365a48a655b786a4 < 8faf862d81ab197757761e87d0a99fbb96ab2cf08faf862d81ab197757761e87d0a99fbb96ab2cf0
linuxlinux>= f9eec4947add999e1251bf14365a48a655b786a4 < a1548363582a8066edd4986f839d785f13dda3aaa1548363582a8066edd4986f839d785f13dda3aa
linuxlinux>= f9eec4947add999e1251bf14365a48a655b786a4 < 5a78ac33e3cb8822da64dd1af196e83664b332b05a78ac33e3cb8822da64dd1af196e83664b332b0
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.1.37-16.1.37-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.3.7-16.3.7-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.3.7-16.3.7-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.19 < 6.1.286.1.28
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.2 < 6.2.156.2.15
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.3 < 6.3.26.3.2

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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