wifi: cfg80211: fix buffer overflow in elem comparison

For vendor elements, the code here assumes that 5 octets
are present without checking. Since the element itself is
already checked to fit, we only need to check the length.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sönke Huster <shuster@seemoo.tu-darmstadt.de>
Fixes: 0b8fb8235be8 ("cfg80211: Parsing of Multiple BSSID information in scanning")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index da752b0cc75206e6e139682074a8f848316d02ab..4d217798890a83e2c3145c8301332b8db1ad6170 100644 (file)
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -330,7 +330,8 @@ static size_t cfg80211_gen_new_ie(const u8 *ie, size_t ielen,
                         * determine if they are the same ie.
                         */
                        if (tmp_old[0] == WLAN_EID_VENDOR_SPECIFIC) {
-                               if (!memcmp(tmp_old + 2, tmp + 2, 5)) {
+                               if (tmp_old[1] >= 5 && tmp[1] >= 5 &&
+                                   !memcmp(tmp_old + 2, tmp + 2, 5)) {
                                        /* same vendor ie, copy from
                                         * subelement
                                         */