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authorArend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>2016-09-05 10:45:47 +0100
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>2016-09-07 16:43:50 +0300
commitded89912156b1a47d940a0c954c43afbabd0c42c (patch)
treee46601d21d00ac4cd15e3f199aed6e9bb2b76bed /drivers
parenta9840c46ff9bb845d62d6f9592ab76c0e531c8f4 (diff)
brcmfmac: avoid potential stack overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap()
User-space can choose to omit NL80211_ATTR_SSID and only provide raw IE TLV data. When doing so it can provide SSID IE with length exceeding the allowed size. The driver further processes this IE copying it into a local variable without checking the length. Hence stack can be corrupted and used as exploit. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7 Reported-by: Daxing Guo <freener.gdx@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index 5db56a74e7df..b8aec5e5ef93 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -4527,7 +4527,7 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
(u8 *)&settings->beacon.head[ie_offset],
settings->beacon.head_len - ie_offset,
WLAN_EID_SSID);
- if (!ssid_ie)
+ if (!ssid_ie || ssid_ie->len > IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN)
return -EINVAL;
memcpy(ssid_le.SSID, ssid_ie->data, ssid_ie->len);