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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2008-10-07 19:31:17 +0200
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-10-14 20:47:15 -0400
commit09914813da37f1ee9d77998a0701629cfbbd98f4 (patch)
tree6577e7769862378abf62e6867a54b71da1dc12c6 /net
parent3eadd751eb8cb8090a65b4fa72c6360fd1aa5f06 (diff)
mac80211: fix HT information element parsing
There's no checking that the HT IEs are of the right length which can be used by an attacker to cause an out-of-bounds access by sending a too short HT information/capability IE. Fix it by simply pretending those IEs didn't exist when too short. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h6
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/mlme.c3
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/util.c8
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
index 8025b294588..156e42a003a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
@@ -816,8 +816,8 @@ struct ieee802_11_elems {
u8 *ext_supp_rates;
u8 *wmm_info;
u8 *wmm_param;
- u8 *ht_cap_elem;
- u8 *ht_info_elem;
+ struct ieee80211_ht_cap *ht_cap_elem;
+ struct ieee80211_ht_addt_info *ht_info_elem;
u8 *mesh_config;
u8 *mesh_id;
u8 *peer_link;
@@ -844,8 +844,6 @@ struct ieee802_11_elems {
u8 ext_supp_rates_len;
u8 wmm_info_len;
u8 wmm_param_len;
- u8 ht_cap_elem_len;
- u8 ht_info_elem_len;
u8 mesh_config_len;
u8 mesh_id_len;
u8 peer_link_len;
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
index 49f86fa56bf..87665d7bb4f 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
@@ -1348,10 +1348,8 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_mgmt_assoc_resp(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
(ifsta->flags & IEEE80211_STA_WMM_ENABLED)) {
struct ieee80211_ht_bss_info bss_info;
ieee80211_ht_cap_ie_to_ht_info(
- (struct ieee80211_ht_cap *)
elems.ht_cap_elem, &sta->sta.ht_info);
ieee80211_ht_addt_info_ie_to_ht_bss_info(
- (struct ieee80211_ht_addt_info *)
elems.ht_info_elem, &bss_info);
ieee80211_handle_ht(local, 1, &sta->sta.ht_info, &bss_info);
}
@@ -1709,7 +1707,6 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_mgmt_beacon(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
struct ieee80211_ht_bss_info bss_info;
ieee80211_ht_addt_info_ie_to_ht_bss_info(
- (struct ieee80211_ht_addt_info *)
elems.ht_info_elem, &bss_info);
changed |= ieee80211_handle_ht(local, 1, &conf->ht_conf,
&bss_info);
diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c
index f32561ec224..cee4884b9d0 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/util.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/util.c
@@ -529,12 +529,12 @@ void ieee802_11_parse_elems(u8 *start, size_t len,
elems->ext_supp_rates_len = elen;
break;
case WLAN_EID_HT_CAPABILITY:
- elems->ht_cap_elem = pos;
- elems->ht_cap_elem_len = elen;
+ if (elen >= sizeof(struct ieee80211_ht_cap))
+ elems->ht_cap_elem = (void *)pos;
break;
case WLAN_EID_HT_EXTRA_INFO:
- elems->ht_info_elem = pos;
- elems->ht_info_elem_len = elen;
+ if (elen >= sizeof(struct ieee80211_ht_addt_info))
+ elems->ht_info_elem = (void *)pos;
break;
case WLAN_EID_MESH_ID:
elems->mesh_id = pos;