CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53524
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: Fix integer overflow in iwl_write_to_user_buf
An integer overflow occurs in the iwl_write_to_user_buf() function,
which is called by the iwl_dbgfs_monitor_data_read() function.
static bool iwl_write_to_user_buf(char __user *user_buf, ssize_t count,
void *buf, ssize_t *size,
ssize_t *bytes_copied)
{
int buf_size_left = count - *bytes_copied;
buf_size_left = buf_size_left - (buf_size_left % sizeof(u32));
if (*size > buf_size_left)
*size = buf_size_left;
If the user passes a SIZE_MAX value to the "ssize_t count" parameter,
the ssize_t count parameter is assigned to "int buf_size_left".
Then compare "*size" with "buf_size_left" . Here, "buf_size_left" is a
negative number, so "*size" is assigned "buf_size_left" and goes into
the third argument of the copy_to_user function, causing a heap overflow.
This is not a security vulnerability because iwl_dbgfs_monitor_data_read()
is a debugfs operation with 0400 privileges.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.0 < 5.4.244)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.181)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.113)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.30)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.3.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/059e426d666a41e26b184c177c1ca3ee2d6fa1b6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ad8dd870aa187d0c21d032bb2c6433559075eec Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58d1b717879bfeabe09b35e41ad667c79933eb2e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82f877ec9b041edc4c7c509c605cc3393d837bf0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de78456976026102babe66258c228691ca5677c0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb1ef44efac797b384d361a76e33f77027c29a14 Patch