From 6ef0e1c10455927867cac8f0ed6b49f328f8cf95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Navaneeth K Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:33:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: fix stack buffer overflow in OnAssocReq IE parsing The Supported Rates IE length from an incoming Association Request frame was used directly as the memcpy() length when copying into a fixed-size 16-byte stack buffer (supportRate). A malicious station can advertise an IE length larger than 16 bytes, causing a stack buffer overflow. Clamp ie_len to the buffer size before copying the Supported Rates IE, and correct the bounds check when merging Extended Supported Rates to prevent a second potential overflow. This prevents kernel stack corruption triggered by malformed association requests. Signed-off-by: Navaneeth K Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c index fb170a144d28f..f6c5eb30f9f6a 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c @@ -1028,6 +1028,9 @@ unsigned int OnAssocReq(struct adapter *padapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame) status = WLAN_STATUS_CHALLENGE_FAIL; goto OnAssocReqFail; } else { + if (ie_len > sizeof(supportRate)) + ie_len = sizeof(supportRate); + memcpy(supportRate, p+2, ie_len); supportRateNum = ie_len; @@ -1035,7 +1038,7 @@ unsigned int OnAssocReq(struct adapter *padapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame) pkt_len - WLAN_HDR_A3_LEN - ie_offset); if (p) { - if (supportRateNum <= sizeof(supportRate)) { + if (supportRateNum + ie_len <= sizeof(supportRate)) { memcpy(supportRate+supportRateNum, p+2, ie_len); supportRateNum += ie_len; } -- 2.47.3