[PATCH 5.15 045/120] wifi: cfg80211: fix buffer overflow in elem comparison

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-12-05T19:38:50Z

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

[ Upstream commit 9f16b5c82a025cd4c864737409234ddc44fb166a ]

For vendor elements, the code here assumes that 5 octets
are present without checking. Since the element itself is
already checked to fit, we only need to check the length.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sönke Huster <shuster@seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de>
Fixes: 0b8fb8235be8 ("cfg80211: Parsing of Multiple BSSID information in scanning")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/wireless/scan.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index 2477d28c2dab..937ec4c2a3bf 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -330,7 +330,8 @@ static size_t cfg80211_gen_new_ie(const u8 *ie, size_t ielen,
* determine if they are the same ie.
*/
if (tmp_old[0] == WLAN_EID_VENDOR_SPECIFIC) {
- if (!memcmp(tmp_old + 2, tmp + 2, 5)) {
+ if (tmp_old[1] >= 5 && tmp[1] >= 5 &&
+ !memcmp(tmp_old + 2, tmp + 2, 5)) {
/* same vendor ie, copy from
* subelement
*/
--
2.35.1