On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 02:02:41PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:

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This problem was originally tracked down by Brad Spengler.

When calling wireless ioctls, if a driver does not correctly
validate/shrink iwp->length, the resulting copy_to_user can leak up to
64K of kernel heap contents.

It seems that this is triggerable[1] in 2.6.32 at least on ath5k, but
I was not able to track down how. The twisty maze of ioctl handlers
stumped me. :)

       You can always ask.

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Other drivers I checked did not appear to have any problems,
but the potential remains. I'm not sure if this patch is the right approach;
it was fixed differently[2] in grsecurity.

       Did you tried your patch for real ? With large scan request ?
       I ask because at first glance, it looks incorrect, asI believe
it kills large request. But someone would need to test, for sure.

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[1] http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2290&start=0
[2] http://grsecurity.net/~spender/wireless-infoleak-fix2.patch

       I believe this patch would make the situation worse.

       Would you mind validating the following patch ? I've just
verified that it compiles and I believe it does what you are asking in
a much more predictable way.
       Regards,

       Jean

diff -u -p wext.j2.c wext.c

--- wext.j2.c   2010-08-27 14:17:26.000000000 -0700
+++ wext.c      2010-08-27 14:19:33.000000000 -0700

@@ -800,9 +800,12 @@ static int ioctl_standard_iw_point(struc
                       goto out;
               }

-               if (copy_to_user(iwp->pointer, extra,
-                                iwp->length *
-                                descr->token_size)) {
+               /* Verify how much we should return. Some driver
+                * may abuse iwp->length... */
+               if((iwp->length * descr->token_size) < extra_size)
+                       extra_size = iwp->length * descr->token_size;
+
+               if (copy_to_user(iwp->pointer, extra, extra_size)) {
                       err = -EFAULT;
                       goto out;
               }