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staging: rtl8188eu: Fix potential overuse of kernel memory
authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:02:32 +0000 (12:02 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:32:38 +0000 (10:32 -0800)
commit2b420373488ff081f5686293ca309de8975929a8
tree9180a3cb6b64e8538e5c5dbbdd533b4219f17ab4
parent9fdbd88c0eb5d6fe7bf53e65fc1b165d5899d1a8
staging: rtl8188eu: 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 08eea54a8f22 ("Add files for new driver - part 16").

Reported by: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com>
Cc: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes commit 08eea54a8f22 ("Add files for new driver - part 16").
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200210180235.21691-4-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c