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From: Tristan Madani <tristmd@gmail.com>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Cc: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>,
	"John W . Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
Subject: [PATCH wireless 1/3] wifi: carl9170: fix IE parsing loop bounds check
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:21:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261026112151.2515228-1-tristmd@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>

carl9170_find_ie() iterates over information elements using a loop
condition of while (pos < end). When only one byte remains
(pos == end - 1), the loop body accesses pos[1] which reads one byte
beyond the validated buffer boundary. The read happens in the bounds
check expression pos + 2 + pos[1] > end before the result of that
check can prevent the access.

Fix by tightening the loop condition to while (pos + 2 <= end),
which ensures that at least the IE id (pos[0]) and length (pos[1])
bytes are within bounds before any access.

Fixes: a84fab3cbfdc4 ("carl9170: 802.11 rx/tx processing and usb backend")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c
index fbe46a5e4e415..de3ee0abd5be2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/rx.c
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ static u8 *carl9170_find_ie(u8 *data, unsigned int len, u8 ie)
 
 	pos = (u8 *)mgmt->u.beacon.variable;
 	end = data + len;
-	while (pos < end) {
+	while (pos + 2 <= end) {
 		if (pos + 2 + pos[1] > end)
 			return NULL;
 
-- 
2.47.3


             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-26 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-26 11:21 Tristan Madani [this message]
2026-10-26 11:21 ` [PATCH wireless 2/3] wifi: rt2x00: fix IE parsing loop bounds check Tristan Madani
2026-10-26 11:21 ` [PATCH wireless 3/3] wifi: p54: " Tristan Madani
2026-10-26 11:45   ` Johannes Berg
2026-10-26 22:41     ` Christian Lamparter

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