linux — security advisory

{
  "id": "1849391b249478242c732ec20244de537dd6c8991dbc99c5951e0ffabaf50d04",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53028",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53028",
    "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)",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53028",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "linux",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
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          {
            "value": "6.1.8-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": []
      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "linux",
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        },
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            "value": "6.1.8-1",
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      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "linux",
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        },
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            "value": "6.1.8-1",
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          }
        ],
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    ],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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      "aliases": [
        "DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53028"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
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                {
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:12"
          },
          "database_specific": {
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        },
        {
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                },
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:13"
          },
          "database_specific": {
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        },
        {
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                },
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                }
              ]
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          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "linux",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:14"
          },
          "database_specific": {
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-26T18:02:37.842233663Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2023-53028"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53028"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-53028",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 456448,
  "published_at": "2025-03-27T17:15:52.507+00:00"
}