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staging: rtl8188eu: Fix potential overuse of kernel memory
authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:02:32 +0000 (12:02 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:42:47 +0000 (15:42 +0100)
commit3404ad4f280069bf1e883a83c89f19c2bedc770d
treec2366c5a55efeb7fc36c85c4d678531ea9aaf53c
parentd6cb533da3216430fb3ed5e0c640b5aaf1002fa9
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>
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c