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,
Tristan Madani <tristan@talencesecurity.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] wifi: wcn36xx: fix heap overflow from oversized firmware HAL response
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:50:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260421135018.352774-2-tristmd@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260421135018.352774-1-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>
---
Changes in v3:
- Regenerated from wireless-next with proper git format-patch to
produce valid index hashes (v2 had post-processed index lines).
Changes in v2:
- No code changes from v1.
drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
index 813553edcb789..f65328329f4f0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
@@ -3293,6 +3293,10 @@ int wcn36xx_smd_rsp_process(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev,
case WCN36XX_HAL_EXIT_IMPS_RSP:
case WCN36XX_HAL_UPDATE_CHANNEL_LIST_RSP:
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);
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-21 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-21 13:50 [PATCH v3 0/3] wifi: wcn36xx: firmware trust boundary hardening Tristan Madani
2026-04-21 13:50 ` Tristan Madani [this message]
2026-04-21 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] wifi: wcn36xx: fix OOB read from firmware count in PRINT_REG_INFO indication Tristan Madani
2026-04-21 13:50 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] wifi: wcn36xx: fix OOB read from short trigger BA firmware response Tristan Madani
2026-04-21 14:03 ` Loic Poulain
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