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| author | Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> | 2020-02-10 21:02:32 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-02-28 18:36:11 +0300 |
| commit | b34152501205a893f8091a509cc876e9f4e3f4a0 (patch) | |
| tree | 35c5ec0b528e8baa7524a7740005d43c1ce0fcae | |
| parent | 2851358d8f2b2aa1c3302abf47b6f179c074e056 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b34152501205a893f8091a509cc876e9f4e3f4a0.tar.xz | |
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>
| -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 8c9c5cd03e86..184fc05a0f8b 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c @@ -2051,7 +2051,7 @@ 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; } |