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authorEliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com>2011-11-24 18:13:56 +0200
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2013-01-16 16:44:59 -0500
commit42585bfbff9ad0c9c03e47a1989f911a984ce618 (patch)
treec08c4c48d7707a1982716801cc6b6aa5d8b0f98d
parent89b56467c5ee10ab80c44aa1fe03d461deaf0c92 (diff)
nl80211: fix MAC address validation
commit e007b857e88097c96c45620bf3b04a4e309053d1 upstream. MAC addresses have a fixed length. The current policy allows passing < ETH_ALEN bytes, which might result in reading beyond the buffer. Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliad@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/nl80211.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index fde82a8ac5da..a316e592376b 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ static const struct nla_policy nl80211_policy[NL80211_ATTR_MAX+1] = {
[NL80211_ATTR_IFINDEX] = { .type = NLA_U32 },
[NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME] = { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING, .len = IFNAMSIZ-1 },
- [NL80211_ATTR_MAC] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, .len = ETH_ALEN },
- [NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, .len = ETH_ALEN },
+ [NL80211_ATTR_MAC] = { .len = ETH_ALEN },
+ [NL80211_ATTR_PREV_BSSID] = { .len = ETH_ALEN },
[NL80211_ATTR_KEY] = { .type = NLA_NESTED, },
[NL80211_ATTR_KEY_DATA] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,