On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Arend van Spriel
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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));
>
> Reported-by: "freenerguo(郭大兴)" <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <[email protected]>
> ---
> Hi Kalle,
>
> Here is the patch as Linus send it to us and [email protected]. I
> removed the lower bound check as that is already done in cfg80211.
> Now I signed off on the patch although formally I suppose Linus should
> sign it off. Putting it out there so people can respond as deemed
> necessary.
>
> Now fingers crossed whether patchwork will properly deal with the UTF-8
> characters :-p
>

Somehow horrific to see - less in usage (no CC here).

- Sedat -

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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=grep&q=security%40kernel.org

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