Linux kernel 4.7.7/4.8.1 broadcom Wifi Driver brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap Buffer Overflow
Posted on 30 November -0001
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Linux kernel 4.7.7/4.8.1 broadcom Wifi Driver brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap Buffer Overflow</TITLE><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></HEAD><BODY>User-space can choose to omit NL80211_ATTR_SSID and only provide raw IE TLV data. When doing so it can provide SSID IE with length exceeding the allowed size. The driver further processes this IE copying it into a local variable without checking the length. Hence stack can be corrupted and used as exploit. diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c index 5db56a7..b8aec5e5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c @@ -4527,7 +4527,7 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev, (u8 *)&settings->beacon.head[ie_offset], settings->beacon.head_len - ie_offset, WLAN_EID_SSID); - if (!ssid_ie) + if (!ssid_ie || ssid_ie->len > IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN) return -EINVAL; memcpy(ssid_le.SSID, ssid_ie->data, ssid_ie->len); </BODY></HTML>
