Bug 2401572 (CVE-2023-53589) - CVE-2023-53589 kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't trust firmware n_channels
Summary: CVE-2023-53589 kernel: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't trust firmware n_channels
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53589
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-10-04 16:08 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-09 00:02 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-04 16:08:07 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't trust firmware n_channels

If the firmware sends us a corrupted MCC response with
n_channels much larger than the command response can be,
we might copy far too much (uninitialized) memory and
even crash if the n_channels is large enough to make it
run out of the one page allocated for the FW response.

Fix that by checking the lengths. Doing a < comparison
would be sufficient, but the firmware should be doing
it correctly, so check more strictly.


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