From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
stable-review@kernel.org
Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
Maithili Hinge <maithili@marvell.com>,
Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>,
Michael Hirsch <m.hirsch@raumfeld.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org,
linux-wireless@lists.infradead.org,
Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@gmail.com>,
Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: [08/39] Libertas: fix buffer overflow in lbs_get_essid()
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:02:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100105200259.993485759@mini.kroah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100105195007.GA23952@kroah.com>
2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------
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 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/wext.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/wext.c
@@ -1951,10 +1951,8 @@ static int lbs_get_essid(struct net_devi
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
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2010-01-05 19:47 ` [01/10] Libertas: fix buffer overflow in lbs_get_essid() Greg KH
2010-01-05 20:02 ` Greg KH [this message]
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