From: "HE WEI (ギカク)" <skyexpoc@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Sara Sharon" <sara.sharon@intel.com>,
"Luca Coelho" <luciano.coelho@intel.com>,
"HE WEI (ギカク)" <skyexpoc@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] wifi: cfg80211: bound element ID read when checking non-inheritance
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 20:59:54 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260707115954.21721-1-skyexpoc@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260626144543.5034-1-skyexpoc@gmail.com>
cfg80211_is_element_inherited() reads the first data octet of the
candidate element (id = elem->data[0]) to look it up in an extension
non-inheritance list. It does so after testing elem->id, but without
verifying that the element actually has a data octet. A zero-length
extension element (WLAN_EID_EXTENSION with length 0) therefore makes it
read one octet past the end of the element.
_ieee802_11_parse_elems_full() runs this check for every element of a
frame once a non-inheritance context exists -- e.g. while parsing a
per-STA profile of a Multi-Link element in a (re)association response,
or a non-transmitted BSS profile -- so a crafted frame from an AP can
trigger a one-octet slab-out-of-bounds read during element parsing:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in cfg80211_is_element_inherited
Read of size 1 ... in net/wireless/scan.c
Return early (treat the element as inherited) when an extension element
carries no data, mirroring the existing handling of empty ID lists.
The bug was found by fuzzing ieee802_11_parse_elems_full() under KASAN.
Fixes: f7dacfb11475 ("cfg80211: support non-inheritance element")
Signed-off-by: HE WEI (ギカク) <skyexpoc@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Move the version changelog below the --- line and trim the Fixes
commit id to 12 characters (checkpatch).
Changes in v2:
- Correct the Fixes tag. The unchecked elem->data[0] read was
introduced in 2019 by f7dacfb11475 ("cfg80211: support
non-inheritance element") -- the commit that added
cfg80211_is_element_inherited() -- not by dfd9aa3e7a45, which only
rewrote the sibling cfg80211_gen_new_ie() and never touched this
function.
net/wireless/scan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index 05b7dc6b7..0a44856b1 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ bool cfg80211_is_element_inherited(const struct element *elem,
return true;
if (elem->id == WLAN_EID_EXTENSION) {
- if (!ext_id_len)
+ if (!ext_id_len || !elem->datalen)
return true;
loop_len = ext_id_len;
list = &non_inherit_elem->data[3 + id_len];
--
2.43.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-07 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-26 14:45 [PATCH] wifi: cfg80211: bound element ID read when checking non-inheritance HE WEI (ギカク)
2026-07-06 11:43 ` Johannes Berg
2026-07-07 9:22 ` HE WEI(ギカク)
2026-07-07 9:48 ` [PATCH v2] " HE WEI (ギカク)
2026-07-07 11:59 ` HE WEI (ギカク) [this message]
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