CVE-2023-53232

Published Sep 15, 2025

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mt76: mt7921: fix kernel panic by accessing unallocated eeprom.data The MT7921 driver no longer uses eeprom.data, but the relevant code has not been removed completely since commit 16d98b548365 ("mt76: mt7921: rely on mcu_get_nic_capability"). This could result in potential invalid memory access. To fix the kernel panic issue in mt7921, it is necessary to avoid accessing unallocated eeprom.data which can lead to invalid memory access. Furthermore, it is possible to entirely eliminate the mt7921_mcu_parse_eeprom function and solely depend on mt7921_mcu_parse_response to divide the RxD header. [2.702735] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000550 [2.702740] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode [2.702741] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page [2.702743] PGD 0 P4D 0 [2.702747] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [2.702755] RIP: 0010:mt7921_mcu_parse_response+0x147/0x170 [mt7921_common] [2.702758] RSP: 0018:ffffae7c00fef828 EFLAGS: 00010286 [2.702760] RAX: ffffa367f57be024 RBX: ffffa367cc7bf500 RCX: 0000000000000000 [2.702762] RDX: 0000000000000550 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffa367cc7bf500 [2.702763] RBP: ffffae7c00fef840 R08: ffffa367cb167000 R09: 0000000000000005 [2.702764] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffffc04702e4 R12: ffffa367e8329f40 [2.702766] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffa367e8329f40 [2.702768] FS: 000079ee6cf20c40(0000) GS:ffffa36b2f940000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [2.702769] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [2.702775] CR2: 0000000000000550 CR3: 00000001233c6004 CR4: 0000000000770ee0 [2.702776] PKRU: 55555554 [2.702777] Call Trace: [2.702782] mt76_mcu_skb_send_and_get_msg+0xc3/0x11e [mt76 <HASH:1bc4 5>] [2.702785] mt7921_run_firmware+0x241/0x853 [mt7921_common <HASH:6a2f 6>] [2.702789] mt7921e_mcu_init+0x2b/0x56 [mt7921e <HASH:d290 7>] [2.702792] mt7921_register_device+0x2eb/0x5a5 [mt7921_common <HASH:6a2f 6>] [2.702795] ? mt7921_irq_tasklet+0x1d4/0x1d4 [mt7921e <HASH:d290 7>] [2.702797] mt7921_pci_probe+0x2d6/0x319 [mt7921e <HASH:d290 7>] [2.702799] pci_device_probe+0x9f/0x12a
Source
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
linux_kernel

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
7.1
Impact score
5.2
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations

  1. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: tmc-etr: Fix race condition between sysfs and perf mode When trying to run perf and sysfs mode simultaneously, the WARN_ON() in tmc_etr_enable_hw() is triggered sometimes: WARNING: CPU: 42 PID: 3911571 at drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c:1060 tmc_etr_enable_hw+0xc0/0xd8 [coresight_tmc] [..snip..] Call trace: tmc_etr_enable_hw+0xc0/0xd8 [coresight_tmc] (P) tmc_enable_etr_sink+0x11c/0x250 [coresight_tmc] (L) tmc_enable_etr_sink+0x11c/0x250 [coresight_tmc] coresight_enable_path+0x1c8/0x218 [coresight] coresight_enable_sysfs+0xa4/0x228 [coresight] enable_source_store+0x58/0xa8 [coresight] dev_attr_store+0x20/0x40 sysfs_kf_write+0x4c/0x68 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x120/0x1b8 vfs_write+0x2c8/0x388 ksys_write+0x74/0x108 __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x64/0x148 do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38 el0_svc+0x3c/0x130 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc8/0xd0 el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Since the enablement of sysfs mode is separeted into two critical regions, one for sysfs buffer allocation and another for hardware enablement, it's possible to race with the perf mode. Fix this by double check whether the perf mode's been used before enabling the hardware in sysfs mode. mode: [sysfs mode] [perf mode] tmc_etr_get_sysfs_buffer() spin_lock(&drvdata->spinlock) [sysfs buffer allocation] spin_unlock(&drvdata->spinlock) spin_lock(&drvdata->spinlock) tmc_etr_enable_hw() drvdata->etr_buf = etr_perf->etr_buf spin_unlock(&drvdata->spinlock) spin_lock(&drvdata->spinlock) tmc_etr_enable_hw() WARN_ON(drvdata->etr_buf) // WARN sicne etr_buf initialized at the perf side spin_unlock(&drvdata->spinlock) With this fix, we retain the check for CS_MODE_PERF in get_etr_sysfs_buf. This ensures we verify whether the perf mode's already running before we actually allocate the buffer. Then we can save the time of allocating/freeing the sysfs buffer if race with the perf mode.CVE-2026-46272