This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wireless: radiotap: fix parsing buffer overrun
to the 3.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
wireless-radiotap-fix-parsing-buffer-overrun.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f5563318ff1bde15b10e736e97ffce13be08bc1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:47:05 +0200
Subject: wireless: radiotap: fix parsing buffer overrun
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
commit f5563318ff1bde15b10e736e97ffce13be08bc1a upstream.
When parsing an invalid radiotap header, the parser can overrun
the buffer that is passed in because it doesn't correctly check
1) the minimum radiotap header size
2) the space for extended bitmaps
The first issue doesn't affect any in-kernel user as they all
check the minimum size before calling the radiotap function.
The second issue could potentially affect the kernel if an skb
is passed in that consists only of the radiotap header with a
lot of extended bitmaps that extend past the SKB. In that case
a read-only buffer overrun by at most 4 bytes is possible.
Fix this by adding the appropriate checks to the parser.
Reported-by: Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/wireless/radiotap.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/wireless/radiotap.c
+++ b/net/wireless/radiotap.c
@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ int ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_init(
struct ieee80211_radiotap_header *radiotap_header,
int max_length, const struct ieee80211_radiotap_vendor_namespaces *vns)
{
+ /* check the radiotap header can actually be present */
+ if (max_length < sizeof(struct ieee80211_radiotap_header))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/* Linux only supports version 0 radiotap format */
if (radiotap_header->it_version)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -131,7 +135,8 @@ int ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_init(
*/
if ((unsigned long)iterator->_arg -
- (unsigned long)iterator->_rtheader >
+ (unsigned long)iterator->_rtheader +
+ sizeof(uint32_t) >
(unsigned long)iterator->_max_length)
return -EINVAL;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.11/wireless-radiotap-fix-parsing-buffer-overrun.patch
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