nl80211: check for the required netlink attributes presence
authorVladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 22:21:21 +0000 (22:21 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:59:17 +0000 (01:59 +0100)
commitfc3c418e43bb8c284c2d5dced8969292012a4b48
tree9667b0f6ebfd743450d9d36b92a80538944c21e2
parent088a454caa7865492058cdafe17d448fcab89f09
nl80211: check for the required netlink attributes presence

nl80211_set_rekey_data() does not check if the required attributes
NL80211_REKEY_DATA_{REPLAY_CTR,KEK,KCK} are present when processing
NL80211_CMD_SET_REKEY_OFFLOAD request. This request can be issued by
users with CAP_NET_ADMIN privilege and may result in NULL dereference
and a system crash. Add a check for the required attributes presence.
This patch is based on the patch by bo Zhang.

This fixes CVE-2017-12153.

References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491046
Fixes: e5497d766ad ("cfg80211/nl80211: support GTK rekey offload")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.1-rc1
Reported-by: bo Zhang <zhangbo5891001@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all
Gbp-Pq: Name nl80211-check-for-the-required-netlink-attributes-presence.patch
net/wireless/nl80211.c