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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)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Wed, 7 Sep 2016 13:43:50 +0000 (16:43 +0300)
commit98989f9f76cc71d5e6288e8d8b65f24ec3382b35
treee46601d21d00ac4cd15e3f199aed6e9bb2b76bed
parent0b92f9bc514562c4031cffe999ea72cdadbb3594
brcmfmac: avoid potential stack overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap()

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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7
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>
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c