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Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: avoid potential stack overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap()

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On 5-9-2016 11:45, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> 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.

This patch is intended for wireless-drivers repository, ie. for v4.8.

Regards,
Arend

> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.7
> Reported-by: Daxing Guo <freener.gdx@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Franky Lin <franky.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
> index 5db56a7..b8aec5e5 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);
> 



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