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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2013-10-11 14:47:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2013-10-14 09:47:00 +0200 |
| commit | f5563318ff1bde15b10e736e97ffce13be08bc1a (patch) | |
| tree | ba7cbabe2a7b788c2dc59aea858ef95a1537b8a4 /net | |
| parent | f38dd58ccca0d612e62509f75e99952dcf316cb2 (diff) | |
wireless: radiotap: fix parsing buffer overrun
When parsing an invalid radiotap header, the parser can overrun
the buffer that is passed in because it doesn't correctly check
1) the minimum radiotap header size
2) the space for extended bitmaps
The first issue doesn't affect any in-kernel user as they all
check the minimum size before calling the radiotap function.
The second issue could potentially affect the kernel if an skb
is passed in that consists only of the radiotap header with a
lot of extended bitmaps that extend past the SKB. In that case
a read-only buffer overrun by at most 4 bytes is possible.
Fix this by adding the appropriate checks to the parser.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Evan Huus <eapache@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/radiotap.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/radiotap.c b/net/wireless/radiotap.c index 7d604c06c3d..a271c27fac7 100644 --- a/net/wireless/radiotap.c +++ b/net/wireless/radiotap.c @@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ int ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_init( struct ieee80211_radiotap_header *radiotap_header, int max_length, const struct ieee80211_radiotap_vendor_namespaces *vns) { + /* check the radiotap header can actually be present */ + if (max_length < sizeof(struct ieee80211_radiotap_header)) + return -EINVAL; + /* Linux only supports version 0 radiotap format */ if (radiotap_header->it_version) return -EINVAL; @@ -131,7 +135,8 @@ int ieee80211_radiotap_iterator_init( */ if ((unsigned long)iterator->_arg - - (unsigned long)iterator->_rtheader > + (unsigned long)iterator->_rtheader + + sizeof(uint32_t) > (unsigned long)iterator->_max_length) return -EINVAL; } |