[PATCH v2 2/2] wifi: libertas: fix OOB read from firmware bssdescriptsize in scan response
Tristan Madani
tristmd at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 15:24:46 PDT 2026
From: Tristan Madani <tristan at talencesecurity.com>
The firmware-controlled bssdescriptsize field in lbs_ret_scan() is used
to compute the TSF descriptor position without validation against the
response buffer size. An inflated value causes out-of-bounds reads from
the 2312-byte response buffer into adjacent struct lbs_private members.
Add a check that bssdescriptsize fits within the response data.
Fixes: ff9fc791940f ("libertas: first stab at cfg80211 support")
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan at talencesecurity.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c
index XXXXXXX..XXXXXXX 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c
@@ -555,6 +555,14 @@ static int lbs_ret_scan(struct lbs_private *priv, unsigned long dummy,
bsssize = get_unaligned_le16(&scanresp->bssdescriptsize);
+ if (bsssize > le16_to_cpu(resp->size) -
+ sizeof(struct cmd_ds_802_11_scan_rsp)) {
+ lbs_deb_scan(
+ "scan response: bssdescriptsize %d exceeds response\n",
+ bsssize);
+ goto done;
+ }
+
lbs_deb_scan("scan response: %d BSSs (%d bytes); resp size %d bytes\n",
scanresp->nr_sets, bsssize, le16_to_cpu(resp->size));
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