[PATCH] nl80211: check for the required netlink attributes presence

From	Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] nl80211: check for the required netlink attributes presence
Date	2017-09-13 00:30 +0200
Message-ID	<up1QR-7eU-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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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>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 0df8023..fbd5593 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -10903,6 +10903,9 @@ static int nl80211_set_rekey_data(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
+	if (!tb[NL80211_REKEY_DATA_REPLAY_CTR] || !tb[NL80211_REKEY_DATA_KEK] ||
+	    !tb[NL80211_REKEY_DATA_KCK])
+		return -EINVAL;
 	if (nla_len(tb[NL80211_REKEY_DATA_REPLAY_CTR]) != NL80211_REPLAY_CTR_LEN)
 		return -ERANGE;
 	if (nla_len(tb[NL80211_REKEY_DATA_KEK]) != NL80211_KEK_LEN)
-- 
2.9.5

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[PATCH] nl80211: check for the required netlink attributes presence Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com> - 2017-09-13 00:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] nl80211: check for the required netlink attributes  presence Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2017-09-15 09:20 +0200

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