mwifiex: Fix possible buffer overflows at parsing bss descriptor

mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie() calls memcpy() unconditionally in a couple places without checking the destination size. Since the source is given from user-space, this may trigger a heap buffer overflow. Fix it by putting the length check before performing memcpy(). This fix addresses CVE-2019-3846. Reported-by: huangwen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
torvalds · May 30, 2019 · 13ec7f1 · 13ec7f1
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c
@@ -1247,6 +1247,8 @@ int mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter,
 		}
 		switch (element_id) {
 		case WLAN_EID_SSID:
+			if (element_len > IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN)
+				return -EINVAL;
 			bss_entry->ssid.ssid_len = element_len;
 			memcpy(bss_entry->ssid.ssid, (current_ptr + 2),
 			       element_len);
@@ -1256,6 +1258,8 @@ int mwifiex_update_bss_desc_with_ie(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter,
 			break;
 
 		case WLAN_EID_SUPP_RATES:
+			if (element_len > MWIFIEX_SUPPORTED_RATES)
+				return -EINVAL;
 			memcpy(bss_entry->data_rates, current_ptr + 2,
 			       element_len);
 			memcpy(bss_entry->supported_rates, current_ptr + 2,