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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)
commitf044f9f33036c6204f311ce5a8457566253a31a7
treee46601d21d00ac4cd15e3f199aed6e9bb2b76bed
parenteea249bf8033b7913c1d419a3a5daa94623110c9
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