Re: [PATCH] Libertas: fix buffer overflow in lbs_get_essid()

[Daniel Mack]

(Sorry, had a typo in the linux-wireless list address, corrected now).

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:12:58AM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> 
> The libertas driver copies the SSID buffer back to the wireless core and
> appends a trailing NULL character for termination. This is
> 
> a) unnecessary because the buffer is allocated with kzalloc and is hence
>    already NULLed when this function is called, and
> 
> b) for priv->curbssparams.ssid_len == 32, it writes back one byte too
>    much which causes memory corruptions.
> 
> Fix this by removing the extra write.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maithili Hinge <maithili@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael Hirsch <m.hirsch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: libertas-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/libertas/wext.c |    2 --
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/wext.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/wext.c
> index be837a0..01c738b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/wext.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/wext.c
> @@ -1953,10 +1953,8 @@ static int lbs_get_essid(struct net_device *dev, struct iw_request_info *info,
>  	if (priv->connect_status == LBS_CONNECTED) {
>  		memcpy(extra, priv->curbssparams.ssid,
>  		       priv->curbssparams.ssid_len);
> -		extra[priv->curbssparams.ssid_len] = '\0';
>  	} else {
>  		memset(extra, 0, 32);
> -		extra[priv->curbssparams.ssid_len] = '\0';
>  	}
>  	/*
>  	 * If none, we may want to get the one that was set
> -- 
> 1.6.3.3
> 
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