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LIN1019-13023 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2023-52832

Created: May 22, 2024    Updated: Dec 4, 2024
Resolved Date: Sep 13, 2024
Found In Version: 10.19.45.1
Fix Version: 10.19.45.32
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 19
Component/s: Kernel

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.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2023-52832 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52832)

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