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staging: rtl8723bs: Fix potential overuse of kernel memory
authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:02:33 +0000 (12:02 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:23:33 +0000 (17:23 +0100)
commit564bcdd09c0a00cf8a08ed24605af0c4a8cae507
tree29cde560582c6d713f6f24973905087463baf2bb
parent238f71c70ff3ef8ad7f18c571a6bb7ad511ad284
staging: rtl8723bs: Fix potential overuse of kernel memory

commit 23954cb078febfc63a755301fe77e06bccdb4d2a 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 554c0a3abf216 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver").

Reported by: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com>
Cc: Pietro Oliva <pietroliva@gmail.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 554c0a3abf216 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver").
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200210180235.21691-5-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c