brcmfmac: avoid potential stack overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap()
authorArend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:45:47 +0000 (10:45 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:13:58 +0000 (04:13 -0600)
commitb82a7f93b4e60d8689d8f4e687ef58ed2098739f
tree30c604b466532b736a0d742025e44ec1c86a9883
parentb5784d4209810937eebdd66d792d9ee02c886c5f
brcmfmac: avoid potential stack overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap()

commit ded89912156b1a47d940a0c954c43afbabd0c42c upstream.

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.

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>
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c