brcmfmac: avoid potential stack overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap()

User-space can choose to omit NL80211_ATTR_SSID and only provide raw
IE TLV data. When doing so it can provide SSID IE with length exceeding
the allowed size. The driver further processes this IE copying it
into a local variable without checking the length. Hence stack can be
corrupted and used as exploit.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7
Reported-by: Daxing Guo <freener.gdx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index 5db56a74e7df0da940a074e8c7ee21b60c2d931b..b8aec5e5ef93e28dfb70c95557d7388fd9b67bef 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -4527,7 +4527,7 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *ndev,
                                (u8 *)&settings->beacon.head[ie_offset],
                                settings->beacon.head_len - ie_offset,
                                WLAN_EID_SSID);
-               if (!ssid_ie)
+               if (!ssid_ie || ssid_ie->len > IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN)
                        return -EINVAL;
 
                memcpy(ssid_le.SSID, ssid_ie->data, ssid_ie->len);