Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2017-08-28

CVE-2017-9417 and brcmfmac

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2017-08-27 15:14:15

The CVE-2017-9417 aka "Broadpwn" vulnerability is said to affect the
firmware for various Broadcom BCM43xx wifi chips, some of which are
supported by the in-tree brcmfmac driver and firmware in linux-
firmware.git.

The bcmdhd driver for Android was patched to improve validation of
events from the firmware:
https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm.git/+/android-6.0.1_r0.92%5E!/
But the event handling code in
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c still seems to
lack most of those checks.  Should it be patched?

I also haven't seen any related updates for BCM43xx firmware in linux-
firmware.git.  Is any of this firmware vulnerable?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.

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