wifi: mac80211: drop oversized fragments to avoid extra_len overflow
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Short explanation
An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel mac80211 subsystem within the ieee80211_rx_h_defragment() function, where processing oversized fragments causes the extra_len variable to wrap around modulo 65536, leading to a kernel crash.
Fragment sequences sent by a malicious peer or rogue access point can cause the kernel to allocate insufficient tailroom, triggering a kernel crash in softirq context and resulting in a denial of service.
What should be done?
- Follow vendor advisories and apply available updates
- Integrate fixes that check whether incoming fragment lengths exceed U16_MAX
Chain of evidence and sources
entry->extra_len alanı u16 türüne daraltıldığı için büyük parça toplamları modulo 65536 sarmalamasına neden olur.
Yetersiz arabellek tahsisi, skb_put() fonksiyonunun skb_over_panic() tetiklemesiyle kernelin çökmesine yol açar.
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: drop oversized fragments to avoid extra_len overflow In ieee80211_rx_h_defragment(), fragment payloads are accumulated into entry->extra_len as subsequent fragments arrive: entry->extra_len += rx->skb->len; When the final fragment arrives, the head fragment is dequeued, and pskb_expand_head() is called with entry->extra_len to ensure sufficient tailroom for all queued fragments before copying: if (skb_tailroom(rx->skb) < entry->extra_len) { if (unlikely(pskb_expand_head(rx->skb, 0, entry->extra_len, GFP_ATOMIC))) { ... } } while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&entry->skb_list))) { skb_put_data(rx->skb, skb->data, skb->len); dev_kfree_skb(skb); } In commit 69f132236827 ("mac80211: shrink struct ieee80211_fragment_entry"), entry->extra_len was narrowed from unsigned int to u16 in order to reduce structure memory footprint. However, an IEEE 802.11 frame sequence can contain up to 16 fragments (frag numbers 0..15). If a sequence of large fragments arrives (e.g. from a malicious peer or rogue AP), the sum of fragment lengths can exceed 65535 bytes (for example, 15 fragments of 4400 bytes total 66000 bytes). Because extra_len is a u16, this addition overflows and wraps around modulo 65536 (e.g. 66000 wraps to 464). Consequently, pskb_expand_head() allocates only the truncated amount of tailroom (or is skipped entirely if the head fragment already has >= 464 bytes of tailroom). When skb_put_data() subsequently iterates through the queued skb list, it appends the full payload into the undersized buffer, causing skb_put() to trigger skb_over_panic() and crash the kernel in softirq context. A legitimate MSDU in IEEE 802.11 is at most 2304 bytes (or up to 7935/11454 bytes for A-MSDU, which is not fragmented), well below U16_MAX. Fix this without increasing the size of struct ieee80211_fragment_entry by checking whether adding the incoming fragment length would exceed U16_MAX. If so, purge the queued fragments and drop the frame. [assign a separate drop reason]
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