CVE-2023-52829 (GCVE-0-2023-52829)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-05-21 15:31
Modified
2026-08-05 09:11
Severity ?
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath12k: fix possible out-of-bound write in ath12k_wmi_ext_hal_reg_caps() reg_cap.phy_id is extracted from WMI event and could be an unexpected value in case some errors happen. As a result out-of-bound write may occur to soc->hal_reg_cap. Fix it by validating reg_cap.phy_id before using it. This is found during code review. Compile tested only.
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Linux Linux Version: d889913205cf7ebda905b1e62c5867ed4e39f6c2
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