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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2008-10-29 10:43:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2008-10-29 21:54:35 (GMT) |
| commit | 48735d8d8bd701b1e0cd3d49c21e5e385ddcb077 (patch) | |
| tree | 73d969f41bbe0a10d01bebcaf9e90796a483db61 | |
| parent | 87bf24f3d2e076468deaa5181d44184887072904 (diff) | |
| download | linux-48735d8d8bd701b1e0cd3d49c21e5e385ddcb077.tar.xz | |
libertas: fix buffer overrun
If somebody sends an invalid beacon/probe response, that can trash the
whole BSS descriptor. The descriptor is, luckily, large enough so that
it cannot scribble past the end of it; it's well above 400 bytes long.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.24-2.6.27, bug present in some form since driver was added (2.6.22)]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c index 8f66903..22c4c61 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c @@ -598,8 +598,8 @@ static int lbs_process_bss(struct bss_descriptor *bss, switch (elem->id) { case MFIE_TYPE_SSID: - bss->ssid_len = elem->len; - memcpy(bss->ssid, elem->data, elem->len); + bss->ssid_len = min_t(int, 32, elem->len); + memcpy(bss->ssid, elem->data, bss->ssid_len); lbs_deb_scan("got SSID IE: '%s', len %u\n", escape_essid(bss->ssid, bss->ssid_len), bss->ssid_len); |