System crash via oversized SDIO receive transfer
Published Mar 18, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026
Denial of service in the Linux kernel allows local users to crash affected systems during rtw88 SDIO packet reception. rtw_sdio_read_port() requests an aggregated receive buffer in one MMC/SDIO transfer without honoring the host's max_req_size, overrunning the socket buffer and triggering skb_over_panic. Reachability requires an rtw88 SDIO adapter and a host controller with a transfer limit below the received or aggregated data size; the observed consequence is a kernel panic.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in the Linux kernel allows local users to crash affected systems during rtw88 SDIO packet reception. rtw_sdio_read_port() requests an aggregated receive buffer in one MMC/SDIO transfer without honoring the host's max_req_size, overrunning the socket buffer and triggering skb_over_panic. Reachability requires an rtw88 SDIO adapter and a host controller with a transfer limit below the received or aggregated data size; the observed consequence is a kernel panic.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-52611
- Published
- Mar 18, 2024
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
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- Mar 18, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.4
- Affected versionversion=65371a3f14e73979958aea0db1e3bb456a296149 <00384f565a91c08c4bedae167f749b093d10e3fe
- Affected versionversion=65371a3f14e73979958aea0db1e3bb456a296149 <0e9ffff72a0674cd6656314dbd99cdd2123a3030
- Affected versionversion=65371a3f14e73979958aea0db1e3bb456a296149 <5b5ddf21b978ec315cab9d9e7e6ac7374791a8c7
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