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[X,1/3] UBUNTU: SAUCE: mwifiex: fix possible heap overflow in mwifiex_process_country_ie()

Message ID 20191126083917.5995-5-stefan.bader@canonical.com
State New
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Series [X,1/3] UBUNTU: SAUCE: mwifiex: fix possible heap overflow in mwifiex_process_country_ie() | expand

Commit Message

Stefan Bader Nov. 26, 2019, 8:39 a.m. UTC 
From: Wen Huang <huangwenabc@gmail.com>

mwifiex_process_country_ie() function parse elements of bss
descriptor in beacon packet. When processing WLAN_EID_COUNTRY
element, there is no upper limit check for country_ie_len before
calling memcpy. The destination buffer domain_info->triplet is an
array of length MWIFIEX_MAX_TRIPLET_802_11D(83). The remote
attacker can build a fake AP with the same ssid as real AP, and
send malicous beacon packet with long WLAN_EID_COUNTRY elemen
(country_ie_len > 83). Attacker can  force STA connect to fake AP
on a different channel. When the victim STA connects to fake AP,
will trigger the heap buffer overflow. Fix this by checking for
length and if found invalid, don not connect to the AP.

This fix addresses CVE-2019-14895.

Reported-by: huangwen <huangwenabc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com>

CVE-2019-14895

(backported from https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11256477/)
[smb: drop marvell subdirectory from path]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
index abe195974d79..7c730aa3354d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
@@ -231,6 +231,13 @@  static int mwifiex_process_country_ie(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
 			    "11D: skip setting domain info in FW\n");
 		return 0;
 	}
+
+	if (country_ie_len >
+	    (IEEE80211_COUNTRY_STRING_LEN + MWIFIEX_MAX_TRIPLET_802_11D)) {
+		mwifiex_dbg(priv->adapter, ERROR,
+			    "11D: country_ie_len overflow!, deauth AP\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 	memcpy(priv->adapter->country_code, &country_ie[2], 2);
 
 	domain_info->country_code[0] = country_ie[2];
@@ -274,8 +281,9 @@  int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_private *priv, struct cfg80211_bss *bss,
 	priv->scan_block = false;
 
 	if (bss) {
-		if (adapter->region_code == 0x00)
-			mwifiex_process_country_ie(priv, bss);
+		if (adapter->region_code == 0x00 &&
+		    mwifiex_process_country_ie(priv, bss))
+			return -EINVAL;
 
 		/* Allocate and fill new bss descriptor */
 		bss_desc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mwifiex_bssdescriptor),