[CVE-2017-11089][Trusty][SRU][PATCH] cfg80211: Define nla_policy for NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_MESH_POWER_MODE

Po-Hsu Lin po-hsu.lin at canonical.com
Fri Feb 2 04:37:37 UTC 2018


From: Srinivas Dasari <dasaris at qti.qualcomm.com>

CVE-2017-11089

Buffer overread may happen as nl80211_set_station() reads 4 bytes
from the attribute NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_MESH_POWER_MODE without
validating the size of data received when userspace sends less
than 4 bytes of data with NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_MESH_POWER_MODE.
Define nla_policy for NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_MESH_POWER_MODE to avoid
the buffer overread.

Fixes: 3b1c5a5307f ("{cfg,nl}80211: mesh power mode primitives and userspace access")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Dasari <dasaris at qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni at qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 8feb69c7bd89513be80eb19198d48f154b254021)
Signed-off-by: Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu.lin at canonical.com>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index a71cec5..eeaf56a 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NL80211_ATTR_MAX+1] = {
 	[NL80211_ATTR_SCAN_FLAGS] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[NL80211_ATTR_P2P_CTWINDOW] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
 	[NL80211_ATTR_P2P_OPPPS] = { .type = NLA_U8 },
+	[NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_MESH_POWER_MODE] = {. type = NLA_U32 },
 	[NL80211_ATTR_ACL_POLICY] = {. type = NLA_U32 },
 	[NL80211_ATTR_MAC_ADDRS] = { .type = NLA_NESTED },
 	[NL80211_ATTR_STA_CAPABILITY] = { .type = NLA_U16 },
-- 
2.7.4





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