CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-54286
7.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-30
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: dvm: Fix memcpy: detected field-spanning write backtrace
A received TKIP key may be up to 32 bytes because it may contain
MIC rx/tx keys too. These are not used by iwl and copying these
over overflows the iwl_keyinfo.key field.
Add a check to not copy more data to iwl_keyinfo.key then will fit.
This fixes backtraces like this one:
memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 32) of single field "sta_cmd.key.key" at drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/sta.c:1103 (size 16)
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 946 at drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/sta.c:1103 iwlagn_send_sta_key+0x375/0x390 [iwldvm]
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Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E6430/0H3MT5, BIOS A21 05/08/2017
RIP: 0010:iwlagn_send_sta_key+0x375/0x390 [iwldvm]
<snip>
Call Trace:
<TASK>
iwl_set_dynamic_key+0x1f0/0x220 [iwldvm]
iwlagn_mac_set_key+0x1e4/0x280 [iwldvm]
drv_set_key+0xa4/0x1b0 [mac80211]
ieee80211_key_enable_hw_accel+0xa8/0x2d0 [mac80211]
ieee80211_key_replace+0x22d/0x8e0 [mac80211]
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ed3c1c2fc3482b72e755820261779cd2e2c5a3e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57189c885149825be8eb8c3524b5af017fdeb941 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cd644f66b43709816561d63e0173cb0c7aab159 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76b5ea43ad2fb4f726ddfaff839430a706e7d7c2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87940e4030e4705e1f3fd2bbb1854eae8308314b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91ad1ab3cc7e981cb6d6ee100686baed64e1277e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef16799640865f937719f0771c93be5dca18adc6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa57021262e998e2229d6383b1081638df2fe238 git.kernel.org