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cve416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67CVE-2023-52832
HistoryMay 21, 2024 - 4:15 p.m.

CVE-2023-52832

2024-05-2116:15:20
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
web.nvd.nist.gov
24
linux kernel
wifi
power level

7.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

12.7%

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.

7.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

12.7%

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