[PATCH Zesty] brcmfmac: fix possible buffer overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_mgmt_tx()

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Tue Aug 22 09:08:15 UTC 2017


From: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel at broadcom.com>

The lower level nl80211 code in cfg80211 ensures that "len" is between
25 and NL80211_ATTR_FRAME (2304).  We subtract DOT11_MGMT_HDR_LEN (24) from
"len" so thats's max of 2280.  However, the action_frame->data[] buffer is
only BRCMF_FIL_ACTION_FRAME_SIZE (1800) bytes long so this memcpy() can
overflow.

	memcpy(action_frame->data, &buf[DOT11_MGMT_HDR_LEN],
	       le16_to_cpu(action_frame->len));

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # 3.9.x
Fixes: 18e2f61db3b70 ("brcmfmac: P2P action frame tx.")
Reported-by: "freenerguo(郭大兴)" <freenerguo at tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel at broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>

CVE-2017-7541

(cherry-picked from commit 8f44c9a41386729fea410e688959ddaa9d51be7c)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index dcde596..7e689c8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -4934,6 +4934,11 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev,
 		cfg80211_mgmt_tx_status(wdev, *cookie, buf, len, true,
 					GFP_KERNEL);
 	} else if (ieee80211_is_action(mgmt->frame_control)) {
+		if (len > BRCMF_FIL_ACTION_FRAME_SIZE + DOT11_MGMT_HDR_LEN) {
+			brcmf_err("invalid action frame length\n");
+			err = -EINVAL;
+			goto exit;
+		}
 		af_params = kzalloc(sizeof(*af_params), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (af_params == NULL) {
 			brcmf_err("unable to allocate frame\n");
-- 
2.7.4





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