[PATCH] staging: r8712u: Fix possible out-of-bounds index with TKIP and AES keys

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Sat Oct 8 19:00:10 UTC 2011


Array XGrpKey has only 2 elements and uses (keyid - 1) as the index, which
allows the possibility of memory corruption from an out-of-bounds index.

This problem was reported by a new version of smatch.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
---

V2 - forgot to refresh patch before saending.

---
Index: wireless-testing-new/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing-new.orig/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c
+++ wireless-testing-new/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_mlme.c
@@ -1271,12 +1271,16 @@ sint r8712_set_key(struct _adapter *adap
 			psecuritypriv->DefKey[keyid].skey, keylen);
 		break;
 	case _TKIP_:
+		if (keyid < 1 || keyid > 2)
+			return _FAIL;
 		keylen = 16;
 		memcpy(psetkeyparm->key,
 			&psecuritypriv->XGrpKey[keyid - 1], keylen);
 		psetkeyparm->grpkey = 1;
 		break;
 	case _AES_:
+		if (keyid < 1 || keyid > 2)
+			return _FAIL;
 		keylen = 16;
 		memcpy(psetkeyparm->key,
 			&psecuritypriv->XGrpKey[keyid - 1], keylen);



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