linux — security advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: ensure CLM version is null-terminated to prevent stack-out-of-bounds Fix a stack-out-of-bounds read in brcmfmac that occurs when 'buf' that is not null-terminated is passed as an argument of strreplace() in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds(). This buffer is filled with a CLM version string by memcpy() in brcmf_fil_iovar_data_get(). Ensure buf is null-terminated. Found by a modified version of syzkaller. [ 33.004414][ T1896] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available [ 33.013486][ T1896] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM43236/3 wl0: Nov 30 2011 17:33:42 version 5.90.188.22 [ 33.021554][ T1896] ================================================================== [ 33.022379][ T1896] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in strreplace+0xf2/0x110 [ 33.023122][ T1896] Read of size 1 at addr ffffc90001d6efc8 by task kworker/0:2/1896 [ 33.023852][ T1896] [ 33.024096][ T1896] CPU: 0 PID: 1896 Comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: G O 5.14.0+ #132 [ 33.024927][ T1896] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 33.026065][ T1896] Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event [ 33.026581][ T1896] Call Trace: [ 33.026896][ T1896] dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d [ 33.027372][ T1896] print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xf/0x334 [ 33.028037][ T1896] ? strreplace+0xf2/0x110 [ 33.028403][ T1896] ? s
- Products
- linux
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.1.20-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-53582
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: brcmfmac: ensure CLM version is null-terminated to prevent stack-out-of-bounds Fix a stack-out-of-bounds read in brcmfmac that occurs when 'buf' that is not null-terminated is passed as an argument of strreplace() in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds(). This buffer is filled with a CLM version string by memcpy() in brcmf_fil_iovar_data_get(). Ensure buf is null-terminated. Found by a modified version of syzkaller. [ 33.004414][ T1896] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available [ 33.013486][ T1896] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM43236/3 wl0: Nov 30 2011 17:33:42 version 5.90.188.22 [ 33.021554][ T1896] ================================================================== [ 33.022379][ T1896] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in strreplace+0xf2/0x110 [ 33.023122][ T1896] Read of size 1 at addr ffffc90001d6efc8 by task kworker/0:2/1896 [ 33.023852][ T1896] [ 33.024096][ T1896] CPU: 0 PID: 1896 Comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: G O 5.14.0+ #132 [ 33.024927][ T1896] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 33.026065][ T1896] Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event [ 33.026581][ T1896] Call Trace: [ 33.026896][ T1896] dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d [ 33.027372][ T1896] print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xf/0x334 [ 33.028037][ T1896] ? strreplace+0xf2/0x110 [ 33.028403][ T1896] ? s
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53582
linux
Fixed versions: 6.1.20-1
linux
Fixed versions: 6.1.20-1
linux
Fixed versions: 6.1.20-1
Complete source record
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