CVE-2023-52530: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
wifi: mac80211: fix potential key use-after-free
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 74% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: fix potential key use-after-free
When ieee80211_key_link() is called by ieee80211_gtk_rekey_add()
but returns 0 due to KRACK protection (identical key reinstall),
ieee80211_gtk_rekey_add() will still return a pointer into the
key, in a potential use-after-free. This normally doesn't happen
since it's only called by iwlwifi in case of WoWLAN rekey offload
which has its own KRACK protection, but still better to fix, do
that by returning an error code and converting that to success on
the cfg80211 boundary only, leaving the error for bad callers of
ieee80211_gtk_rekey_add().
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2408f491ff998d674707725eadc47d8930aced09https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f4e16e39e4f5e78248dd9e51276a83203950b36https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31db78a4923ef5e2008f2eed321811ca79e7f71bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65c72a7201704574dace708cbc96a8f367b1491dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8a834eb09bb95c2bf9c76f1a28ecef7d8c439d0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8e599a635066c50ac214c3e10858f1d37e03022https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html