CVE-2023-53028 (GCVE-0-2023-53028)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 16:43 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:12
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Revert "wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_add()"
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Revert "wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_add()"
This reverts commit 13e5afd3d773c6fc6ca2b89027befaaaa1ea7293.
ieee80211_if_free() is already called from free_netdev(ndev)
because ndev->priv_destructor == ieee80211_if_free
syzbot reported:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000004: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000020-0x0000000000000027]
CPU: 0 PID: 10041 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-syzkaller-00388-g55b98837e37d #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022
RIP: 0010:pcpu_get_page_chunk mm/percpu.c:262 [inline]
RIP: 0010:pcpu_chunk_addr_search mm/percpu.c:1619 [inline]
RIP: 0010:free_percpu mm/percpu.c:2271 [inline]
RIP: 0010:free_percpu+0x186/0x10f0 mm/percpu.c:2254
Code: 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 f5 0e 00 00 48 8b 3b 48 01 ef e8 cf b3 0b 00 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8d 78 20 48 89 f9 48 c1 e9 03 <80> 3c 11 00 0f 85 3b 0e 00 00 48 8b 58 20 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004ba7068 EFLAGS: 00010002
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88823ffe2b80 RCX: 0000000000000004
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff81c1f4e7 RDI: 0000000000000020
RBP: ffffe8fffe8fc220 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 1ffffffff2179ab2 R12: ffff8880b983d000
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000607f450fc220 R15: ffff88823ffe2988
FS: 00007fcb349de700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b32220000 CR3: 000000004914f000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
netdev_run_todo+0x6bf/0x1100 net/core/dev.c:10352
ieee80211_register_hw+0x2663/0x4040 net/mac80211/main.c:1411
mac80211_hwsim_new_radio+0x2537/0x4d80 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:4583
hwsim_new_radio_nl+0xa09/0x10f0 drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c:5176
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x1e6/0x2d0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:968
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1048 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x4ff/0x7e0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1065
netlink_rcv_skb+0x165/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2564
genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1076
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1330 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x547/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1356
netlink_sendmsg+0x91b/0xe10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1932
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0xd3/0x120 net/socket.c:734
____sys_sendmsg+0x712/0x8c0 net/socket.c:2476
___sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2530
__sys_sendmsg+0xf7/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2559
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Severity
7.8 (High)
5.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 17:18 UTC
CWE
- CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
b2c0b94f48373ee743a4d63825a9d52364418837 , < 71e5cd1018d345e649e63f74a56c1897f99db7e9
(git)
Affected: 2e32f1299814e8aa2e75aa58704543a36ea3e201 , < 982c8b1e95c088f5d8f65967ec25be66e961401c (git) Affected: 9a50a7f64243bd21a84353c371f3977b9ffd9fa5 , < effecd8d116d3d3a28b4f628e61bba8d318fdfcf (git) Affected: 13e5afd3d773c6fc6ca2b89027befaaaa1ea7293 , < 80f8a66dede0a4b4e9e846765a97809c6fe49ce5 (git) Affected: 147537737a3c83e07a5295de38424c21d354d2a4 (git) Affected: 6.0.16 , < 6.1 (semver) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.10.163 , < 5.10.165
(semver)
Affected: 5.15.86 , < 5.15.90 (semver) Affected: 6.1.2 , < 6.1.8 (semver) |
guessed |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.