vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-52832
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C) | May 21, 2024 | Jan 20, 2025 | Oct 15, 2025 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 21, 2024
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Oct 15, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: don't return unset power in ieee80211_get_tx_power()
We can get a UBSAN warning if ieee80211_get_tx_power() returns the
INT_MIN value mac80211 internally uses for "unset power level".
UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in net/wireless/nl80211.c:3816:5
-2147483648 * 100 cannot be represented in type 'int'
CPU: 0 PID: 20433 Comm: insmod Tainted: G WC OE
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x74/0x92
ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x50
handle_overflow+0x8d/0xd0
__ubsan_handle_mul_overflow+0xe/0x10
nl80211_send_iface+0x688/0x6b0 [cfg80211]
[...]
cfg80211_register_wdev+0x78/0xb0 [cfg80211]
cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call+0x200/0x620 [cfg80211]
[...]
ieee80211_if_add+0x60e/0x8f0 [mac80211]
ieee80211_register_hw+0xda5/0x1170 [mac80211]
In this case, simply return an error instead, to indicate
that no data is available.
wifi: mac80211: don't return unset power in ieee80211_get_tx_power()
We can get a UBSAN warning if ieee80211_get_tx_power() returns the
INT_MIN value mac80211 internally uses for "unset power level".
UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in net/wireless/nl80211.c:3816:5
-2147483648 * 100 cannot be represented in type 'int'
CPU: 0 PID: 20433 Comm: insmod Tainted: G WC OE
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x74/0x92
ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x50
handle_overflow+0x8d/0xd0
__ubsan_handle_mul_overflow+0xe/0x10
nl80211_send_iface+0x688/0x6b0 [cfg80211]
[...]
cfg80211_register_wdev+0x78/0xb0 [cfg80211]
cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call+0x200/0x620 [cfg80211]
[...]
ieee80211_if_add+0x60e/0x8f0 [mac80211]
ieee80211_register_hw+0xda5/0x1170 [mac80211]
In this case, simply return an error instead, to indicate
that no data is available.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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