CVE-2023-52832: wifi: mac80211: don't return unset power in ieee80211_get_tx_power()

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-920

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: before 4.14.331; from 4.15 before 4.19.300; from 4.20 before 5.4.262; from 5.5 before 5.10.202; from 5.11 before 5.15.140; from 5.16 before 6.1.64 — fixed in 4.14.331, 4.19.300, 5.10.202, 5.15.140, 5.4.262, 6.1.64

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.14.331, 4.19.300, 5.10.202, 5.15.140. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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