CVE Published: 21/05/2024 |
CVE Updated: 04/11/2024 |
CVE Year: 2023 Source: Linux |
Vendor: Linux |
Product: Linux Status : PUBLISHED
CVE-2023-52832 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.