[PATCH v3 1/3] wifi: wcn36xx: fix heap overflow from oversized firmware HAL response

Tristan Madani tristmd at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 06:50:16 PDT 2026


From: Tristan Madani <tristan at talencesecurity.com>

The firmware response dispatcher copies all synchronous HAL responses
into the 4096-byte hal_buf without validating the response length. A
response exceeding WCN36XX_HAL_BUF_SIZE causes a heap buffer overflow
with firmware-controlled content.

Add a bounds check on the response length.

Fixes: 8e84c2582169 ("wcn36xx: mac80211 driver for Qualcomm WCN3660/WCN3680 hardware")
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan at talencesecurity.com>
---
Changes in v3:
  - Regenerated from wireless-next with proper git format-patch to
    produce valid index hashes (v2 had post-processed index lines).

Changes in v2:
  - No code changes from v1.

 drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
index 813553edcb789..f65328329f4f0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wcn36xx/smd.c
@@ -3293,6 +3293,10 @@ int wcn36xx_smd_rsp_process(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev,
 	case WCN36XX_HAL_EXIT_IMPS_RSP:
 	case WCN36XX_HAL_UPDATE_CHANNEL_LIST_RSP:
 	case WCN36XX_HAL_ADD_BCN_FILTER_RSP:
+		if (len > WCN36XX_HAL_BUF_SIZE) {
+			wcn36xx_warn("HAL response too large: %d\n", len);
+			break;
+		}
 		memcpy(wcn->hal_buf, buf, len);
 		wcn->hal_rsp_len = len;
 		complete(&wcn->hal_rsp_compl);
-- 
2.47.3




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