[patch 04/26] Fix ieee80211 handling of bogus hdrlength field

Greg KH
2007-10-31T15:24:29Z

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2.6.22-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

changeset 04045f98e0457aba7d4e6736f37eed189c48a5f7 from mainline

Reported by Chris Evans <scarybeasts@gmail.com>:

> The summary is that an evil 80211 frame can crash out a victim's
> machine. It only applies to drivers using the 80211 wireless code, and
> only then to certain drivers (and even then depends on a card's
> firmware not dropping a dubious packet). I must confess I'm not
> keeping track of Linux wireless support, and the different protocol
> stacks etc.
>
> Details are as follows:
>
> ieee80211_rx() does not explicitly check that "skb->len >= hdrlen".
> There are other skb->len checks, but not enough to prevent a subtle
> off-by-two error if the frame has the IEEE80211_STYPE_QOS_DATA flag
> set.
>
> This leads to integer underflow and crash here:
>
> if (frag != 0)
> flen -= hdrlen;
>
> (flen is subsequently used as a memcpy length parameter).

How about this?

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c
+++ b/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c
@@ -366,6 +366,12 @@ int ieee80211_rx(struct ieee80211_device
frag = WLAN_GET_SEQ_FRAG(sc);
hdrlen = ieee80211_get_hdrlen(fc);

+ if (skb->len < hdrlen) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "%s: invalid SKB length %d\n",
+ dev->name, skb->len);
+ goto rx_dropped;
+ }
+
/* Put this code here so that we avoid duplicating it in all
* Rx paths. - Jean II */
#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT

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