CVE-2023-38417

Publication date 16 May 2024

Last updated 2 October 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Improper input validation for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi software before version 23.20 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
linux-firmware	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Needs evaluation

Notes

rodrigo-zaiden

while it is not clear in the advisory, the understanding is that this is a firmware update on the linux-firmware package, which is what being tracked here. I couldn't find which commit on upstream linux-firmware fixes this issue based on the advisory information only.

gianz

noble: the GA 6.8 kernel loads some blobs from before the fix, and no linux-firmware update can change that. resolute: the Intel WiFi firmware ships in the linux-firmware-intel-wireless source.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
linux-firmware	Upstream: ?id=195 Upstream: ?id=150 Upstream: ?id=4ff Upstream: ?id=da7

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.3 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Adjacent
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.3 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L