DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53532

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53532
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53532.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53532
Upstream
Published
2025-10-01T12:15:57Z
Modified
2025-10-02T09:16:10.582362Z
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath11k: fix deinitialization of firmware resources Currently, in ath11kahbfwresourcesinit(), iommu domain mapping is done only for the chipsets having fixed firmware memory. Also, for such chipsets, mapping is done only if it does not have TrustZone support. During deinitialization, only if TrustZone support is not there, iommu is unmapped back. However, for non fixed firmware memory chipsets, TrustZone support is not there and this makes the condition check to true and it tries to unmap the memory which was not mapped during initialization. This leads to the following trace - [ 83.198790] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 [ 83.259537] Modules linked in: ath11kahb ath11k qmihelpers .. snip .. [ 83.280286] pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 83.287228] pc : _iommuunmap+0x30/0x140 [ 83.293907] lr : iommuunmap+0x5c/0xa4 [ 83.298072] sp : ffff80000b3abad0 .. snip .. [ 83.369175] Call trace: [ 83.376282] _iommuunmap+0x30/0x140 [ 83.378541] iommuunmap+0x5c/0xa4 [ 83.382360] ath11kahbfwresourcedeinit.part.12+0x2c/0xac [ath11kahb] [ 83.385666] ath11kahbfreeresources+0x140/0x17c [ath11kahb] [ 83.392521] ath11kahbshutdown+0x34/0x40 [ath11kahb] [ 83.398248] platformshutdown+0x20/0x2c [ 83.403455] deviceshutdown+0x16c/0x1c4 [ 83.407621] kernelrestartprepare+0x34/0x3c [ 83.411529] kernelrestart+0x14/0x74 [ 83.415781] _dosysreboot+0x1c4/0x22c [ 83.419427] _arm64sysreboot+0x1c/0x24 [ 83.423420] invokesyscall+0x44/0xfc [ 83.427326] el0svccommon.constprop.3+0xac/0xe8 [ 83.430974] doel0svc+0xa0/0xa8 [ 83.435659] el0svc+0x1c/0x44 [ 83.438957] el0t64synchandler+0x60/0x144 [ 83.441910] el0t64sync+0x15c/0x160 [ 83.446343] Code: aa0103f4 f9400001 f90027a1 d2800001 (f94006a0) [ 83.449903] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- This can be reproduced by probing an AHB chipset which is not having a fixed memory region. During reboot (or rmmod) trace can be seen. Fix this issue by adding a condition check on firmware fixed memory hwparam as done in the counter initialization function. Tested-on: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.7.0.1-01744-QCAHKSWPLSILICONZ-1

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.37-1

Affected versions

6.*

6.1.27-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.3.7-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.3.7-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}