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From: Tristan Madani <tristmd@gmail.com>
To: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@oss.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	wcn36xx@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] wifi: wcn36xx: fix heap overflow from oversized firmware HAL response
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:37:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260415223710.1616925-2-tristmd@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260415223710.1616925-1-tristmd@gmail.com>

From: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>

The firmware response dispatcher copies all synchronous HAL responses
into the 4096-byte hal_buf without validating the response length. A
response exceeding WCN36XX_HAL_BUF_SIZE causes a heap buffer overflow
with firmware-controlled content.

Add a bounds check on the response length.

Fixes: 8e84c2582169 ("wcn36xx: mac80211 driver for Qualcomm WCN3660/WCN3680 hardware")
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
@@ -3296,6 +3296,11 @@ int wcn36xx_smd_rsp_process(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev,
 	case WCN36XX_HAL_ADD_BCN_FILTER_RSP:
+		if (len > WCN36XX_HAL_BUF_SIZE) {
+			wcn36xx_warn("HAL response too large: %d\n", len);
+			break;
+		}
 		memcpy(wcn->hal_buf, buf, len);
 		wcn->hal_rsp_len = len;
 		complete(&wcn->hal_rsp_compl);


  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-15 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-15 22:37 [PATCH v2 0/3] wifi: wcn36xx: fix OOB reads and heap overflow from firmware responses Tristan Madani
2026-04-15 22:37 ` Tristan Madani [this message]
2026-04-16  6:38   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] wifi: wcn36xx: fix heap overflow from oversized firmware HAL response Johannes Berg
2026-04-15 22:37 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] wifi: wcn36xx: fix OOB read from firmware count in PRINT_REG_INFO indication Tristan Madani
2026-04-15 22:37 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] wifi: wcn36xx: fix OOB read from short trigger BA firmware response Tristan Madani
2026-04-16 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] wifi: wcn36xx: fix OOB reads and heap overflow from firmware responses Jeff Johnson
2026-04-16 18:39   ` Johannes Berg
2026-04-16 19:50     ` Loic Poulain
2026-04-17  0:01     ` Jeff Johnson
2026-04-17  8:24       ` Loic Poulain
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-04-15 22:23 Tristan Madani
2026-04-15 22:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] wifi: wcn36xx: fix heap overflow from oversized firmware HAL response Tristan Madani

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