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Re: CVE-2017-9417 and brcmfmac

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Hi Ben,

> Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hat am 27. August 2017 um 17:14 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> The CVE-2017-9417 aka "Broadpwn" vulnerability is said to affect the
> firmware for various Broadcom BCM43xx wifi chips, some of which are
> supported by the in-tree brcmfmac driver and firmware in linux-
> firmware.git.
> 
> The bcmdhd driver for Android was patched to improve validation of
> events from the firmware:
> https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm.git/+/android-6.0.1_r0.92%5E!/
> But the event handling code in
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c still seems to
> lack most of those checks.  Should it be patched?
> 
> I also haven't seen any related updates for BCM43xx firmware in linux-
> firmware.git.  Is any of this firmware vulnerable?

according to this comment [1] at least 43438 is affected.

[1] - https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1342#issuecomment-321221748

> 
> Ben.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Hutchings
> Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.



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