CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-52530

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.34%

26th percentile - higher than 26% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the mac80211 subsystem has a potential key use-after-free vulnerability. When ieee80211_key_link() returns 0 due to KRACK protection, ieee80211_gtk_rekey_add() still returns a pointer to the key, which may lead to use of freed memory.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could lead to system crash or potentially compromise encryption key security.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a patched version that returns an error code.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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().

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