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cfg80211: Fix validation of AKM suites
authorJouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:13:07 +0000 (16:13 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:32:10 +0000 (12:32 -0800)
commit3b83e963b92ac32af38b379d9bb30d84c383b40d
treec18f1256937d21d918ae76e03433973400f2e2f3
parent8c1addec1bf8b23dd731580329e055a189b37564
cfg80211: Fix validation of AKM suites

commit 1b9ca0272ffae212e726380f66777b30a56ed7a5 upstream.

Incorrect variable was used in validating the akm_suites array from
NL80211_ATTR_AKM_SUITES. In addition, there was no explicit
validation of the array length (we only have room for
NL80211_MAX_NR_AKM_SUITES).

This can result in a buffer write overflow for stack variables with
arbitrary data from user space. The nl80211 commands using the affected
functionality require GENL_ADMIN_PERM, so this is only exposed to admin
users.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/wireless/nl80211.c