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CVE-2023-53028

Revert "wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_add()"

Severity Score

5.5
*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

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 <80> 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:
<TASK>
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:4583
hwsim_new_radio_nl+0xa09/0x10f0 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:5176
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x1e6/0x2d0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:968
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1048 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x4ff/0x7e0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1065
netlink_rcv_skb+0x165/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2564
genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1076
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1330 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x547/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1356
netlink_sendmsg+0x91b/0xe10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1932
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0xd3/0x120 net/socket.c:734
____sys_sendmsg+0x712/0x8c0 net/socket.c:2476
___sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2530
__sys_sendmsg+0xf7/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2559
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

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 <80> 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: <TASK> 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:4583 hwsim_new_radio_nl+0xa09/0x10f0 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:5176 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x1e6/0x2d0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:968 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1048 [inline] genl_rcv_msg+0x4ff/0x7e0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1065 netlink_rcv_skb+0x165/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2564 genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1076 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1330 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x547/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1356 netlink_sendmsg+0x91b/0xe10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1932 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0xd3/0x120 net/socket.c:734 ____sys_sendmsg+0x712/0x8c0 net/socket.c:2476 ___sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2530 __sys_sendmsg+0xf7/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2559 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2025-03-27 CVE Reserved
  • 2025-03-27 CVE Published
  • 2025-03-27 CVE Updated
  • 2025-03-29 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
CAPEC
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 5.10.163 < 5.10.165
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en
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 5.15.86 < 5.15.90
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en
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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>= 6.1.2 < 6.1.8
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en
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Linux
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Linux Kernel
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6.0.16
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en
Affected