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* [PATCH 39/97] Libertas: fix buffer overflow in lbs_get_essid()
       [not found] <20100105003133.GA7199@kroah.com>
@ 2010-01-05  0:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2010-01-05  0:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, stable, stable-review
  Cc: torvalds, akpm, alan, Daniel Mack, Stephen Hemminger,
	Maithili Hinge, Kiran Divekar, Michael Hirsch, netdev,
	libertas-dev, linux-wireless, John W. Linville,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman

From: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>

commit 45b241689179a6065384260242637cf21dabfb2d upstream.

The libertas driver copies the SSID buffer back to the wireless core and
appends a trailing NULL character for termination. This is

a) unnecessary because the buffer is allocated with kzalloc and is hence
   already NULLed when this function is called, and

b) for priv->curbssparams.ssid_len == 32, it writes back one byte too
   much which causes memory corruptions.

Fix this by removing the extra write.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Maithili Hinge <maithili@marvell.com>
Cc: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Cc: Michael Hirsch <m.hirsch@raumfeld.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-wireless@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/wext.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/wext.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/wext.c
index be837a0..01c738b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/wext.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/wext.c
@@ -1953,10 +1953,8 @@ static int lbs_get_essid(struct net_device *dev, struct iw_request_info *info,
 	if (priv->connect_status == LBS_CONNECTED) {
 		memcpy(extra, priv->curbssparams.ssid,
 		       priv->curbssparams.ssid_len);
-		extra[priv->curbssparams.ssid_len] = '\0';
 	} else {
 		memset(extra, 0, 32);
-		extra[priv->curbssparams.ssid_len] = '\0';
 	}
 	/*
 	 * If none, we may want to get the one that was set
-- 
1.6.6


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