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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 03:03:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: freener.gdx@...il.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Broadcom Wifi Driver Brcmfmac brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap Buffer Overflow

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> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=ded89912156b1a47d940a0c954c43afbabd0c42c

> I found a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in Broadcom wifi driver
> brcmfmac, this issue has been fixed,

> To trigger the bug the exploit should send a NL80211_CMD_START_AP or
> NL80211_CMD_NEW_BEACON command to nl80211 socket in kernel.

> NL80211_ATTR_SSID is optional, user can send a netlink packet which
> does not contain information about NL80211_ATTR_SSID, so params.ssid
> and params.ssid_len will be 0. It's the key point in the exploit.

> It does not
> check the length of data before calling memcpy to copy the data to
> stack buffer.

>> brcmfmac: avoid potential stack overflow in brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap()

>> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c

Use CVE-2016-8658.

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