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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.1 Critical

CVE-2023-52832

wifi: mac80211: don't return unset power in ieee80211_get_tx_power()

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: don't return unset power in ieee80211_get_tx_power() We can get a UBSAN warning if ieee80211_get_tx_power() returns the INT_MIN value mac80211 internally uses for "unset power level". UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in net/wireless/nl80211.c:3816:5 -2147483648 * 100 cannot be represented in type 'int' CPU: 0 PID: 20433 Comm: insmod Tainted: G WC OE Call Trace: dump_stack+0x74/0x92 ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x50 handle_overflow+0x8d/0xd0 __ubsan_handle_mul_overflow+0xe/0x10 nl80211_send_iface+0x688/0x6b0 [cfg80211] [...] cfg80211_register_wdev+0x78/0xb0 [cfg80211] cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call+0x200/0x620 [cfg80211] [...] ieee80211_if_add+0x60e/0x8f0 [mac80211] ieee80211_register_hw+0xda5/0x1170 [mac80211] In this case, simply return an error instead, to indicate that no data is available.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • db6d9e9e8b48b7ab68c61553eb5fa68534dd0fde to < 717de20abdcd1d4993fa450e28b8086a352620eaaffected
  • db6d9e9e8b48b7ab68c61553eb5fa68534dd0fde to < 21a0f310a9f3bfd2b4cf4f382430e638607db846affected
  • db6d9e9e8b48b7ab68c61553eb5fa68534dd0fde to < 2be24c47ac19bf639c48c082486c08888bd603c6affected
  • db6d9e9e8b48b7ab68c61553eb5fa68534dd0fde to < adc2474d823fe81d8da759207f4f1d3691aa775aaffected
  • db6d9e9e8b48b7ab68c61553eb5fa68534dd0fde to < 5a94cffe90e20e8fade0b9abd4370bd671fe87c7affected
  • db6d9e9e8b48b7ab68c61553eb5fa68534dd0fde to < e160ab85166e77347d0cbe5149045cb25e83937faffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.7affected
  • 0 to < 5.7unaffected
  • 5.10.202 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.140 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.64 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.5.13 to ≤ 6.5.*unaffected
  • 6.6.3 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.7 to ≤ *unaffected

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