]> git.itanic.dy.fi Git - linux-stable/commitdiff
libertas: fix buffer overrun
authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:30:21 +0000 (19:30 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:50:05 +0000 (10:50 -0800)
commit 48735d8d8bd701b1e0cd3d49c21e5e385ddcb077 upstream

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>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c

index 69f94c92b32d8986a5221658b180d09c94b0a6d7..9335d715e1dec942ada1e815599ad482377ac1e9 100644 (file)
@@ -787,8 +787,8 @@ 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);