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From: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>,
	syzbot+cc867e537e4bd36f69bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] wifi: cfg80211: validate IEs in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:16:37 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260710024637.16729-1-kartikey406@gmail.com> (raw)

Syzkaller reported a KASAN slab-out-of-bounds read in skip_ie()
and a fortify memcpy panic in cfg80211_sme_get_conn_ies().

The KASAN allocation trace shows that a malformed IE buffer is
stored via SIOCSIWGENIE (cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()) without any
validation. The crash trace shows that a subsequent SIOCSIWESSID
triggers a connection attempt which calls cfg80211_sme_get_conn_ies()
to process the stored IE buffer, causing:

 - An out-of-bounds read in skip_ie() which reads ies[pos+1]
   (the length byte) past the end of the 1-byte buffer.

 - An integer underflow in the memcpy size argument when offs
   returned by ieee80211_ie_split() exceeds ies_len, causing
   unsigned subtraction to wrap to SIZE_MAX and triggering a
   fortify panic.

Fix this by validating the IE buffer in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()
before storing it. Add cfg80211_validate_ies() which walks the
buffer and verifies every element has at least 2 bytes (type +
length) and sufficient data bytes as indicated by its length
field. Return -EINVAL if validation fails.

Reported-by: syzbot+cc867e537e4bd36f69bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=cc867e537e4bd36f69bb
Tested-by: syzbot+cc867e537e4bd36f69bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
---
 include/net/cfg80211.h  |  1 +
 net/wireless/util.c     | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 net/wireless/wext-sme.c |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 8188ad200de5..32cef926f8a4 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -10992,4 +10992,5 @@ void cfg80211_incumbent_signal_notify(struct wiphy *wiphy,
 				      u32 signal_interference_bitmap,
 				      gfp_t gfp);
 
+bool cfg80211_validate_ies(const u8 *ies, size_t ies_len);
 #endif /* __NET_CFG80211_H */
diff --git a/net/wireless/util.c b/net/wireless/util.c
index 24527bf321b2..a685020c8efc 100644
--- a/net/wireless/util.c
+++ b/net/wireless/util.c
@@ -3083,3 +3083,19 @@ bool cfg80211_wdev_channel_allowed(struct wireless_dev *wdev,
 	return false;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_wdev_channel_allowed);
+
+bool cfg80211_validate_ies(const u8 *ies, size_t ies_len)
+{
+	size_t pos = 0;
+
+	while (pos < ies_len) {
+		if (pos + 2 > ies_len)
+			return false;
+		if (pos + 2 + ies[pos + 1] > ies_len)
+			return false;
+		pos += 2 + ies[pos + 1];
+	}
+
+	return true;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfg80211_validate_ies);
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-sme.c b/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
index 573b6b15a446..3e9b071f6d66 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-sme.c
@@ -319,6 +319,8 @@ int cfg80211_wext_siwgenie(struct net_device *dev,
 		return 0;
 
 	if (ie_len) {
+		if (!cfg80211_validate_ies(extra, ie_len))
+			return -EINVAL;
 		ie = kmemdup(extra, ie_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!ie)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-10  2:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-10  2:46 Deepanshu Kartikey [this message]
2026-07-10  6:39 ` [PATCH] wifi: cfg80211: validate IEs in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie() Johannes Berg
2026-07-10 15:31   ` Deepanshu Kartikey

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