From e30922bd0c3d24c27f457a64997ed4a47161621e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eliad Peller Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:13:56 +0200 Subject: nl80211: fix MAC address validation commit e007b857e88097c96c45620bf3b04a4e309053d1 upstream. MAC addresses have a fixed length. The current policy allows passing < ETH_ALEN bytes, which might result in reading beyond the buffer. Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net') diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 3dac76f33b94..0c2b8080547f 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NL80211_ATTR_MAX+1] = { [NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX] = { .type = NLA_U32 }, [NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME] = { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING, .len = IFNAMSIZ-1 }, - [NL80211_ATTR_MAC] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, .len = ETH_ALEN }, - [NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, .len = ETH_ALEN }, + [NL80211_ATTR_MAC] = { .len = ETH_ALEN }, + [NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID] = { .len = ETH_ALEN }, [NL80211_ATTR_KEY] = { .type = NLA_NESTED, }, [NL80211_ATTR_KEY_DATA] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, -- cgit v1.2.3