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CVE-2023-52827

kernel: wifi: ath12k: fix possible out-of-bound read in ath12k_htt_pull_ppdu_stats()

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.1

CVSS 3.1

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Published · May 21, 2024

Updated · August 5, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath12k: fix possible out-of-bound read in ath12k_htt_pull_ppdu_stats()

len is extracted from HTT message and could be an unexpected value in case errors happen, so add validation before using to avoid possible out-of-bound read in the following message iteration and parsing.

The same issue also applies to ppdu_info->ppdu_stats.common.num_users, so validate it before using too.

These are found during code review.

Compile test only.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read