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authorJohannes Berg2021-04-08 15:45:20 +0200
committerJohannes Berg2021-04-08 16:43:05 +0200
commit9a6847ba1747858ccac53c5aba3e25c54fbdf846 (patch)
tree3c9907d8cd594f3ec819146a807a0c5d6fe6869a /net
parentabaf94ecc9c356d0b885a84edef4905cdd89cfdd (diff)
nl80211: fix beacon head validation
If the beacon head attribute (NL80211_ATTR_BEACON_HEAD) is too short to even contain the frame control field, we access uninitialized data beyond the buffer. Fix this by checking the minimal required size first. We used to do this until S1G support was added, where the fixed data portion has a different size. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+72b99dcf4607e8c770f3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Fixes: 1d47f1198d58 ("nl80211: correctly validate S1G beacon head") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408154518.d9b06d39b4ee.Iff908997b2a4067e8d456b3cb96cab9771d252b8@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 0d34cca38702..b1df42e4f1eb 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -229,9 +229,13 @@ static int validate_beacon_head(const struct nlattr *attr,
unsigned int len = nla_len(attr);
const struct element *elem;
const struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt = (void *)data;
- bool s1g_bcn = ieee80211_is_s1g_beacon(mgmt->frame_control);
unsigned int fixedlen, hdrlen;
+ bool s1g_bcn;
+ if (len < offsetofend(typeof(*mgmt), frame_control))
+ goto err;
+
+ s1g_bcn = ieee80211_is_s1g_beacon(mgmt->frame_control);
if (s1g_bcn) {
fixedlen = offsetof(struct ieee80211_ext,
u.s1g_beacon.variable);