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| author | Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> | 2020-02-10 12:02:33 -0600 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-02-10 10:32:38 -0800 |
| commit | 23954cb078febfc63a755301fe77e06bccdb4d2a (patch) | |
| tree | 6681a39a25601269fe21ca865787f382e4b68600 /drivers/staging/rtl8723bs | |
| parent | 4ddf8ab8d15ddbc52eefb44eb64e38466ce1f70f (diff) | |
staging: rtl8723bs: Fix potential overuse of kernel memory
In routine wpa_supplicant_ioctl(), the user-controlled p->length is
checked to be at least the size of struct ieee_param size, but the code
does not detect the case where p->length is greater than the size
of the struct, thus a malicious user could be wasting kernel memory.
Fixes commit 554c0a3abf216 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver").
Reported by: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com>
Cc: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 554c0a3abf216 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver").
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200210180235.21691-5-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/rtl8723bs')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c index 3128766dd50e..2ac0d84f090e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c @@ -3373,7 +3373,7 @@ static int wpa_supplicant_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct iw_point *p) /* down(&ieee->wx_sem); */ - if (p->length < sizeof(struct ieee_param) || !p->pointer) { + if (!p->pointer || p->length != sizeof(struct ieee_param)) { ret = -EINVAL; goto out; } |