CVE-2020-3702: Firmware updates for ath9k and ath10k chips

Pali Rohár pali at kernel.org
Wed Oct 7 04:25:02 EDT 2020


On Wednesday 12 August 2020 12:23:34 Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:17:47AM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> > Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> writes:
> > > Could somebody react and provide some details when fixes would be
> > > available for ath9k and ath10k Linux drivers? And what is current state
> > > of this issue for Linux?
> > >
> > > I'm looking at ath9k and ath10k git trees [1] [2] [3] and I do not see
> > > there any change which could be related to CVE-2020-3702.
> > 
> > How about these, from March:
> > 
> > a0761a301746 ("mac80211: drop data frames without key on encrypted links")
> > ce2e1ca70307 ("mac80211: Check port authorization in the ieee80211_tx_dequeue() case")
> > b16798f5b907 ("mac80211: mark station unauthorized before key removal")
> 
> Those cover most of the identified issues for drivers using mac80211
> (e.g., ath9k and ath10k; though, I don't remember whether I actually
> ever managed to reproduce this with ath10k in practice). I have couple
> of additional ath9k-specific patches that cover additional lower layer
> paths for this. I hope to get those out after confirming they work with
> the current kernel tree snapshot.

Hello! Could you please share your ath9k patches which address this issue?



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