CVE-2024-27053

wifi: wilc1000: fix RCU usage in connect path

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
May 1, 2024
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Feb 19, 2024

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Description

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

wifi: wilc1000: fix RCU usage in connect path

With lockdep enabled, calls to the connect function from cfg802.11 layer lead to the following warning:

============================= WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 6.7.0-rc1-wt+ #333 Not tainted ----------------------------- drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/hif.c:386 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! [...] stack backtrace: CPU: 0 PID: 100 Comm: wpa_supplicant Not tainted 6.7.0-rc1-wt+ #333 Hardware name: Atmel SAMA5 unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x18/0x1c show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48 dump_stack_lvl from wilc_parse_join_bss_param+0x7dc/0x7f4 wilc_parse_join_bss_param from connect+0x2c4/0x648 connect from cfg80211_connect+0x30c/0xb74 cfg80211_connect from nl80211_connect+0x860/0xa94 nl80211_connect from genl_rcv_msg+0x3fc/0x59c genl_rcv_msg from netlink_rcv_skb+0xd0/0x1f8 netlink_rcv_skb from genl_rcv+0x2c/0x3c genl_rcv from netlink_unicast+0x3b0/0x550 netlink_unicast from netlink_sendmsg+0x368/0x688 netlink_sendmsg from ____sys_sendmsg+0x190/0x430 ____sys_sendmsg from ___sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x158 ___sys_sendmsg from sys_sendmsg+0xe8/0x150 sys_sendmsg from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c

This warning is emitted because in the connect path, when trying to parse target BSS parameters, we dereference a RCU pointer whithout being in RCU critical section. Fix RCU dereference usage by moving it to a RCU read critical section. To avoid wrapping the whole wilc_parse_join_bss_param under the critical section, just use the critical section to copy ies data

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
3.19.1 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c460495ee072fc01a9b1e8d72c179510418cafac to before e556006de4ea93abe2b46cba202a2556c544b8b2Affected
  • c460495ee072fc01a9b1e8d72c179510418cafac to before b4bbf38c350acb6500cbe667b1e2e68f896e4b38Affected
  • c460495ee072fc01a9b1e8d72c179510418cafac to before d80fc436751cfa6b02a8eda74eb6cce7dadfe5a2Affected
  • c460495ee072fc01a9b1e8d72c179510418cafac to before 745003b5917b610352f52fe0d11ef658d6471ec2Affected
  • c460495ee072fc01a9b1e8d72c179510418cafac to before 4bfd20d5f5c62b5495d6c0016ee6933bd3add7ceAffected
  • c460495ee072fc01a9b1e8d72c179510418cafac to before 5800ec78775c0cd646f71eb9bf8402fb794807deAffected
  • c460495ee072fc01a9b1e8d72c179510418cafac to before dd50d3ead6e3707bb0a5df7cc832730c93ace3a7Affected
  • c460495ee072fc01a9b1e8d72c179510418cafac to before 205c50306acf58a335eb19fa84e40140f4fe814fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.1Affected
  • before 5.1Not affected
  • 5.4.273 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.214 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.153 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.83 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.23 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.7.11 through 6.7.*Not affected
  • 6.8.2 through 6.8.*Not affected
  • 6.9 and laterNot affected

References

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