]> dgit.raspbian.org Git - linux-4.9.git/commit
mac80211: reject ToDS broadcast data frames
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Apr 2017 19:32:16 +0000 (21:32 +0200)
committerpopcornmix <popcornmix@gmail.com>
Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:43:48 +0000 (15:43 +0100)
commitf60e66f9ba976d207e6ae8999a99b13b7db8703a
treeb272c56a01cd9a0a7a95e256782a683d7f682292
parent39e9481f761db5f78458473a88aeb237fd93b756
mac80211: reject ToDS broadcast data frames

commit 3018e947d7fd536d57e2b550c33e456d921fff8c upstream.

AP/AP_VLAN modes don't accept any real 802.11 multicast data
frames, but since they do need to accept broadcast management
frames the same is currently permitted for data frames. This
opens a security problem because such frames would be decrypted
with the GTK, and could even contain unicast L3 frames.

Since the spec says that ToDS frames must always have the BSSID
as the RA (addr1), reject any other data frames.

The problem was originally reported in "Predicting, Decrypting,
and Abusing WPA2/802.11 Group Keys" at usenix
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical-sessions/presentation/vanhoef
and brought to my attention by Jouni.

Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--
net/mac80211/rx.c