From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: johannes@sipsolutions.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
johannes.berg@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] mac80211: reject ToDS broadcast data frames
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:38:09 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170420.153809.763038513182171279.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170420193216.17087-1-johannes@sipsolutions.net>
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:32:16 +0200
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
>
> AP/AP_VLAN modes don't accept any real 802.11 multicast data
> frames, but since they do need to accept broadcast management
> frames the same is currently permitted for data frames. This
> opens a security problem because such frames would be decrypted
> with the GTK, and could even contain unicast L3 frames.
>
> Since the spec says that ToDS frames must always have the BSSID
> as the RA (addr1), reject any other data frames.
>
> The problem was originally reported in "Predicting, Decrypting,
> and Abusing WPA2/802.11 Group Keys" at usenix
> https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical-sessions/presentation/vanhoef
> and brought to my attention by Jouni.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> --
> Dave, I didn't want to send you a new pull request for a single
> commit yet again - can you apply this one patch as is?
Sure, done.
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2017-04-20 19:32 [PATCH net] mac80211: reject ToDS broadcast data frames Johannes Berg
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