From: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_get_wps_ie()
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:54:41 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260718185445.63070-2-meatuni001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260718185445.63070-1-meatuni001@gmail.com>
rtw_get_wps_ie() walks a series of information elements taken
directly from received/associated wireless management frames
(beacons, probe responses, scan results). The loop condition only
checks "cnt < in_len" before reading in_ie[cnt + 1] (the IE length
byte) and before a 4-byte memcmp() at &in_ie[cnt + 2], with no check
that those offsets are actually within in_len.
A malicious or malformed IE blob (e.g. a truncated vendor-specific
IE placed near the end of the buffer) can therefore make this
function read past the end of in_ie by up to several bytes, both in
the loop condition path and via memcpy(wps_ie, &in_ie[cnt],
in_ie[cnt + 1] + 2) when a spurious match occurs.
The sibling helpers rtw_get_sec_ie() and rtw_get_wapi_ie() in this
same file already perform the equivalent "cnt + 2 > in_len" /
"cnt + 2 + in_ie[cnt + 1] > in_len" checks, added to those two
functions by commit 1463ca3ec660 ("staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB reads
in rtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie(), and rtw_get_wps_attr()").
rtw_get_wps_ie() was simply never brought in line with them. Add the
same checks here, plus a length check before the 4-byte OUI memcmp.
Fixes: 554c0a3abf216 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
index 54f805a6b5ce..2fb5863dbeef 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c
@@ -668,9 +668,15 @@ u8 *rtw_get_wps_ie(u8 *in_ie, uint in_len, u8 *wps_ie, uint *wps_ielen)
cnt = 0;
while (cnt < in_len) {
+ if (cnt + 2 > in_len)
+ break;
+ if (cnt + 2 + in_ie[cnt + 1] > in_len)
+ break;
+
eid = in_ie[cnt];
- if ((eid == WLAN_EID_VENDOR_SPECIFIC) && (!memcmp(&in_ie[cnt + 2], wps_oui, 4))) {
+ if ((eid == WLAN_EID_VENDOR_SPECIFIC) && (in_ie[cnt + 1] >= 4) &&
+ (!memcmp(&in_ie[cnt + 2], wps_oui, 4))) {
wpsie_ptr = &in_ie[cnt];
if (wps_ie)
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-18 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-18 18:54 [PATCH 0/5] staging: rtl8723bs: fix multiple OOB reads in IE and frame parsing Muhammad Bilal
2026-07-18 18:54 ` Muhammad Bilal [this message]
2026-07-18 18:54 ` [PATCH 2/5] staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read / stack overflow in rtw_get_wps_attr() Muhammad Bilal
2026-07-18 18:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_action_frame_parse() Muhammad Bilal
2026-07-18 18:54 ` [PATCH 4/5] staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie() Muhammad Bilal
2026-07-18 19:02 ` [PATCH 5/5] staging: rtl8723bs: fix skb->len underflow in monitor TX path Muhammad Bilal
2026-07-19 5:18 ` [PATCH 0/5] staging: rtl8723bs: fix multiple OOB reads in IE and frame parsing Greg Kroah-Hartman
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