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| author | Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> | 2020-02-10 12:02:32 -0600 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-02-28 15:42:47 +0100 |
| commit | 3404ad4f280069bf1e883a83c89f19c2bedc770d (patch) | |
| tree | c2366c5a55efeb7fc36c85c4d678531ea9aaf53c /drivers/staging | |
| parent | d6cb533da3216430fb3ed5e0c640b5aaf1002fa9 (diff) | |
staging: rtl8188eu: Fix potential overuse of kernel memory
commit 4ddf8ab8d15ddbc52eefb44eb64e38466ce1f70f upstream.
In routine wpa_supplicant_ioctl(), the user-controlled p->length is
checked to be at least the size of struct ieee_param size, but the code
does not detect the case where p->length is greater than the size
of the struct, thus a malicious user could be wasting kernel memory.
Fixes commit a2c60d42d97c ("Add files for new driver - part 16").
Reported by: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com>
Cc: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes commit a2c60d42d97c ("Add files for new driver - part 16").
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200210180235.21691-4-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c index 8ddf1aee014b..50793c9df1b3 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c @@ -2052,7 +2052,7 @@ static int wpa_supplicant_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct iw_point *p) struct ieee_param *param; uint ret = 0; - if (p->length < sizeof(struct ieee_param) || !p->pointer) { + if (!p->pointer || p->length != sizeof(struct ieee_param)) { ret = -EINVAL; goto out; } |