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Commit ddedb84f authored by Larry Finger's avatar Larry Finger Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging: rtl8188eu: Fix potential security hole

commit 499c405b upstream.

In routine rtw_hostapd_ioctl(), the user-controlled p->length is assumed
to be at least the size of struct ieee_param size, but this assumption is
never checked. This could result in out-of-bounds read/write on kernel
heap in case a p->length less than the size of struct ieee_param is
specified by the user. If p->length is allowed to be greater than the size
of the struct, then a malicious user could be wasting kernel memory.
Fixes commit a2c60d42 ("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: a2c60d42

 ("staging: r8188eu: Add files for new driver - part 16")
Signed-off-by: default avatarLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200210180235.21691-2-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 91aa9e47
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