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Subject: Forwarded: [PATCH] wifi: cfg80211: validate IEs in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:37:24 -0700 [thread overview]
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Subject: [PATCH] wifi: cfg80211: validate IEs in cfg80211_wext_siwgenie()
Author: kartikey406@gmail.com
#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci
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
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
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