This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: wlags49_h2: buffer overflow setting station name to the 3.4-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: staging-wlags49_h2-buffer-overflow-setting-station-name.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:00:15 +0300 Subject: staging: wlags49_h2: buffer overflow setting station name From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b5e2f339865fb443107e5b10603e53bbc92dc054 upstream. We need to check the length parameter before doing the memcpy(). I've actually changed it to strlcpy() as well so that it's NUL terminated. You need CAP_NET_ADMIN to trigger these so it's not the end of the world. [XiuQi: Backported to 3.4: Adjust context] Reported-by: Nico Golde <nico@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_priv.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_priv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_priv.c @@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ int wvlan_uil_put_info( struct uilreq *u ltv_t *pLtv; bool_t ltvAllocated = FALSE; ENCSTRCT sEncryption; + size_t len; #ifdef USE_WDS hcf_16 hcfPort = HCF_PORT_0; @@ -686,7 +687,8 @@ int wvlan_uil_put_info( struct uilreq *u break; case CFG_CNF_OWN_NAME: memset( lp->StationName, 0, sizeof( lp->StationName )); - memcpy( (void *)lp->StationName, (void *)&pLtv->u.u8[2], (size_t)pLtv->u.u16[0]); + len = min_t(size_t, pLtv->u.u16[0], sizeof(lp->StationName)); + strlcpy(lp->StationName, &pLtv->u.u8[2], len); pLtv->u.u16[0] = CNV_INT_TO_LITTLE( pLtv->u.u16[0] ); break; case CFG_CNF_LOAD_BALANCING: @@ -1800,6 +1802,7 @@ int wvlan_set_station_nickname(struct ne { struct wl_private *lp = wl_priv(dev); unsigned long flags; + size_t len; int ret = 0; /*------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ @@ -1811,7 +1814,8 @@ int wvlan_set_station_nickname(struct ne memset( lp->StationName, 0, sizeof( lp->StationName )); - memcpy( lp->StationName, extra, wrqu->data.length); + len = min_t(size_t, wrqu->data.length, sizeof(lp->StationName)); + strlcpy(lp->StationName, extra, len); /* Commit the adapter parameters */ wl_apply( lp ); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/staging-wlags49_h2-buffer-overflow-setting-station-name.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html