From a14ffdab015e944dae3ab575c0c1732676883569 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Fietkau Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 09:47:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] hostapd: fix remote denial of service vulnerability in WMM action frame parsing Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Backport of r45619 SVN-Revision: 45620 --- package/network/services/hostapd/Makefile | 2 +- ...er-underflow-in-WMM-Action-frame-par.patch | 36 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 package/network/services/hostapd/patches/002-AP-WMM-Fix-integer-underflow-in-WMM-Action-frame-par.patch diff --git a/package/network/services/hostapd/Makefile b/package/network/services/hostapd/Makefile index 7237c654f7..788fd11057 100644 --- a/package/network/services/hostapd/Makefile +++ b/package/network/services/hostapd/Makefile @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk PKG_NAME:=hostapd PKG_VERSION:=2014-06-03.1 -PKG_RELEASE:=1 +PKG_RELEASE:=2 PKG_REV:=84df167554569af8c87f0a8ac1fb508192417d8e PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2 diff --git a/package/network/services/hostapd/patches/002-AP-WMM-Fix-integer-underflow-in-WMM-Action-frame-par.patch b/package/network/services/hostapd/patches/002-AP-WMM-Fix-integer-underflow-in-WMM-Action-frame-par.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bc4d60fcc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/package/network/services/hostapd/patches/002-AP-WMM-Fix-integer-underflow-in-WMM-Action-frame-par.patch @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +From ef566a4d4f74022e1fdb0a2addfe81e6de9f4aae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Jouni Malinen +Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 02:21:53 +0300 +Subject: [PATCH] AP WMM: Fix integer underflow in WMM Action frame parser + +The length of the WMM Action frame was not properly validated and the +length of the information elements (int left) could end up being +negative. This would result in reading significantly past the stack +buffer while parsing the IEs in ieee802_11_parse_elems() and while doing +so, resulting in segmentation fault. + +This can result in an invalid frame being used for a denial of service +attack (hostapd process killed) against an AP with a driver that uses +hostapd for management frame processing (e.g., all mac80211-based +drivers). + +Thanks to Kostya Kortchinsky of Google security team for discovering and +reporting this issue. + +Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen +--- + src/ap/wmm.c | 3 +++ + 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) + +--- a/src/ap/wmm.c ++++ b/src/ap/wmm.c +@@ -274,6 +274,9 @@ void hostapd_wmm_action(struct hostapd_d + return; + } + ++ if (left < 0) ++ return; /* not a valid WMM Action frame */ ++ + /* extract the tspec info element */ + if (ieee802_11_parse_elems(pos, left, &elems, 1) == ParseFailed) { + hostapd_logger(hapd, mgmt->sa, HOSTAPD_MODULE_IEEE80211, -- 2.30.2