CVE-2023-53565

wifi: brcmfmac: Check for probe() id argument being NULL

published October 4, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcmfmac: Check for probe() id argument being NULL

The probe() id argument may be NULL in 2 scenarios:

1. brcmf_pcie_pm_leave_D3() calling brcmf_pcie_probe() to reprobe

the device.

2. If a user tries to manually bind the driver from sysfs then the sdio /

pcie / usb probe() function gets called with NULL as id argument.

1. Is being hit by users causing the following oops on resume and causing

wifi to stop working:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018

<snip>

Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9350/0PWNCR, BIDS 1.13.0 02/10/2020

Workgueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn

RIP: 0010:brcmf_pcie_probe+Ox16b/0x7a0 [brcmfmac]

<snip>

Call Trace:

<TASK>

brcmf_pcie_pm_leave_D3+0xc5/8x1a0 [brcmfmac be3b4cefca451e190fa35be8f00db1bbec293887]

? pci_pm_resume+0x5b/0xf0

? pci_legacy_resume+0x80/0x80

dpm_run_callback+0x47/0x150

device_resume+0xa2/0x1f0

async_resume+0x1d/0x30

<snip>

Fix this by checking for id being NULL.

In the PCI and USB cases try a manual lookup of the id so that manually

binding the driver through sysfs and more importantly brcmf_pcie_probe()

on resume will work.

For the SDIO case there is no helper to do a manual sdio_device_id lookup,

so just directly error out on a NULL id there.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00127 · 2.2th percentile
Published
2025-10-04T15:17Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 15:17Z
    wifi: brcmfmac: Check for probe() id argument being NULL
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