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CVE-2023-53570

· Published 04/10/2025 16:15 · Modified 04/10/2025 16:15

Labels: CVE-2023-53570 2025-10-04416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67CVE-2023-53570

Essential information

Published
04/10/2025 16:15
Modified
04/10/2025 16:15
Author
Creator
CISA KEV
No
CWE

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: nl80211: fix integer overflow in nl80211_parse_mbssid_elems() nl80211_parse_mbssid_elems() uses a u8 variable num_elems to count the number of MBSSID elements in the nested netlink attribute attrs, which can lead to an integer overflow if a user of the nl80211 interface specifies 256 or more elements in the corresponding attribute in userspace. The integer overflow can lead to a heap buffer overflow as num_elems determines the size of the trailing array in elems, and this array is thereafter written to for each element in attrs. Note that this vulnerability only affects devices with the wiphy->mbssid_max_interfaces member set for the wireless physical device struct in the device driver, and can only be triggered by a process with CAP_NET_ADMIN capabilities. Fix this by checking for a maximum of 255 elements in attrs.

NVD status

Status
Received — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
Source
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
NVD
View on NVD

Affected products (CPE)

ProductCPE
linux / linux kernel cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References