* [PATCH] wifi: wilc1000: fix out-of-bounds read in P2P public action frames
@ 2026-08-07 11:52 Ali Ahmet Memis
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From: Ali Ahmet Memis @ 2026-08-07 11:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ajay Singh, Claudiu Beznea; +Cc: linux-wireless, linux-kernel
wilc_wfi_p2p_rx() and mgmt_tx() start parsing a frame once
ieee80211_is_public_action() returns true. That helper only verifies the
frame is long enough for the action category field, that is
offsetofend(struct ieee80211_mgmt, u.action.category), 25 bytes. Both
functions then read the P2P public action header up to oui_subtype at
offset 30 and pass "size - ie_offset" to cfg80211_find_vendor_ie(), where
ie_offset is offsetof(struct ieee80211_mgmt, u) + sizeof(*d), i.e. 32.
A public action frame of 25 to 31 bytes passes the check but is shorter
than that 32 byte header, so oui_subtype can be read out of bounds, and
because the length is unsigned, "size - ie_offset" underflows to a value
close to 4 GiB. cfg80211_find_vendor_ie() takes an unsigned int length,
so even the size_t subtraction in mgmt_tx() is truncated to the same
value. It then walks far past the buffer searching for a vendor element
until it reaches unmapped memory.
In the receive path the frame arrives over the air and needs no
association, so a nearby unauthenticated device can crash the host while
it is in P2P listen. Reject frames shorter than the P2P public action
header in both paths before dereferencing it.
Fixes: 4fb8b5aa2a11 ("staging: wilc1000: refactor p2p action frames handling API's")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
index 6654fce4ded8..2737f3b72684 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/cfg80211.c
@@ -1058,6 +1058,13 @@ void wilc_wfi_p2p_rx(struct wilc_vif *vif, u8 *buff, u32 size)
if (!ieee80211_is_public_action((struct ieee80211_hdr *)buff, size))
goto out_rx_mgmt;
+ /* ieee80211_is_public_action() only validates up to the category
+ * byte, so reject frames too short for the P2P public action header
+ * before dereferencing it or computing size - ie_offset.
+ */
+ if (size < ie_offset)
+ goto out_rx_mgmt;
+
d = (struct wilc_p2p_pub_act_frame *)(&mgmt->u.action);
if (d->oui_subtype != GO_NEG_REQ && d->oui_subtype != GO_NEG_RSP &&
d->oui_subtype != P2P_INV_REQ && d->oui_subtype != P2P_INV_RSP)
@@ -1207,6 +1214,13 @@ static int mgmt_tx(struct wiphy *wiphy,
goto out_set_timeout;
}
+ /* ieee80211_is_public_action() only validates up to the category
+ * byte, so reject frames too short for the P2P public action header
+ * before dereferencing it or computing len - ie_offset.
+ */
+ if (len < ie_offset)
+ goto out_set_timeout;
+
d = (struct wilc_p2p_pub_act_frame *)(&mgmt->u.action);
if (d->oui_type != WLAN_OUI_TYPE_WFA_P2P ||
d->oui_subtype != GO_NEG_CONF) {
--
2.55.0
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