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staging: rtl8723bs: Fix potential overuse of kernel memory
authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:02:33 +0000 (12:02 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:32:38 +0000 (10:32 -0800)
commit868efc0e55510c0f416b4baade7b38942da2114e
tree6681a39a25601269fe21ca865787f382e4b68600
parent56f9af58514aea52b4ce502284ee17e15218b4d0
staging: rtl8723bs: Fix potential overuse of kernel memory

In routine wpa_supplicant_ioctl(), the user-controlled p->length is
checked to be at least the size of struct ieee_param size, but the code
does not detect the case where p->length is greater than the size
of the struct, thus a malicious user could be wasting kernel memory.
Fixes commit 84ed90a855bc6 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver").

Reported by: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com>
Cc: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 84ed90a855bc6 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver").
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200210180235.21691-5-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c