Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 4, 2025
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: don't trust firmware n_channels
CVE-2023-53589
Description
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.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 4.1
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/05ad5a4d421ce65652fcb24d46b7e273130240d6mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/557ba100d8cf3661ff8d71c0b4a2cba8db555ec2mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/682b6dc29d98e857e6ca4bbc077c7dc2899b7473mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c176f03350954b795322de0bfe1d7b514db41f45mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0d39bed9e95f27a246be91c5929254ac043ed30mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e519a404a5bbba37693cb10fa61794a5fce4fd9bmitre
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