oss-security - CVE request: kernel: cfg80211: missing NULL pointer checks

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:32:45 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: kernel: cfg80211: missing NULL pointer checks

Jon Oberheide wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 17:33 -0600, dann frazier wrote:
[...]
> Also would be nice to get one for the cfg80211 issue:
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/41218/
> 
> Reproducer:
> http://jon.oberheide.org/files/cfg80211-remote-dos.c

Thanks Jon.

"These pointers can be NULL, the is_mesh() case isn't ever hit in the
current kernel, but cmp_ies() can be hit under certain conditions."

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/cd3468bad96c00b5a512f551674f36776129520e

Thanks, Eugene

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