In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: Fix a memory corruption issue A few lines above, space is kzalloc()'ed for: sizeof(struct iwl_nvm_data) + sizeof(struct ieee80211_channel) + sizeof(struct ieee80211_rate) 'mvm->nvm_data' is a 'struct iwl_nvm_data', so it is fine. At the end of this structure, there is the 'channels' flex array. Each element is of type 'struct ieee80211_channel'. So only 1 element is allocated in this array. When doing: mvm->nvm_data->bands[0].channels = mvm->nvm_data->channels; We point at the first element of the 'channels' flex array. So this is fine. However, when doing: mvm->nvm_data->bands[0].bitrates = (void *)((u8 *)mvm->nvm_data->channels + 1); because of the "(u8 *)" cast, we add only 1 to the address of the beginning of the flex array. It is likely that we want point at the 'struct ieee80211_rate' allocated just after. Remove the spurious casting so that the pointer arithmetic works as expected.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2024-03-02T21:52:35.664Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T23:03:20.656Z

Reserved: 2024-02-20T12:30:33.319Z

Link: CVE-2023-52531

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T23:03:20.656Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-03-02T22:15:48.613

Modified: 2024-03-04T13:58:23.447

Link: CVE-2023-52531

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-03-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-52531 - Bugzilla