Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 2, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025
wifi: mwifiex: Fix oob check condition in mwifiex_process_rx_packet
CVE-2023-52525
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mwifiex: Fix oob check condition in mwifiex_process_rx_packet
Only skip the code path trying to access the rfc1042 headers when the buffer is too small, so the driver can still process packets without rfc1042 headers.
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Affected products
109- osv-coords107 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References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/10a18c8bac7f60d32b7af22da03b66f350beee38mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/16cc18b9080892d1a0200a38e36ae52e464bc555mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5afb996349cb6d1f14d6ba9aaa7aed3bd82534f6mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b706286473db4fd54b5f869faa67f4a8cb18e99mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/71b1d2b57f145c8469aa9346f0fd57bf59b2b89cmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/aef7a0300047e7b4707ea0411dc9597cba108fc8mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8e260654a29de872e7cb85387d8ab8974694e8emitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/be2ff39b1504c5359f4a083c1cfcad21d666e216mitre
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