[PATCH wireless] wifi: rtlwifi: fix OOB reads in IE parsing functions
From: Tristan Madani <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-04 08:49:44
Also in:
lkml, stable
Subsystem:
realtek wireless driver (rtlwifi family), the rest · Maintainers:
Ping-Ke Shih, Linus Torvalds
From: Tristan Madani <redacted>
rtl_find_ie() and rtl_find_221_ie() iterate over information elements
in beacon frames using a loop condition of `while (pos < end)`. When
only one byte remains (pos == end - 1), the loop body accesses pos[1]
which reads one byte beyond the validated buffer boundary.
In rtl_find_ie(), pos[1] is read in the bounds check expression
`pos + 2 + pos[1] > end` before the result of that check can prevent
the access.
In rtl_find_221_ie(), the situation is worse: when the last byte
happens to be 0xDD (221, vendor-specific IE), the code accesses
pos[1] for the length, pos[2] for the data pointer, and passes both to
rtl_chk_vendor_ouisub() which performs memcmp() on the out-of-bounds
data. The bounds check `pos + 2 + pos[1] > end` only appears after the
vendor IE has already been fully processed.
Fix both functions by tightening the loop condition to
`while (pos + 2 <= end)`, which ensures that at least the IE id (pos[0])
and length (pos[1]) bytes are within bounds before any access.
Additionally, in rtl_find_221_ie(), move the full IE bounds check before
the vendor-specific processing to prevent accessing IE data that extends
past the buffer.
Fixes: acd48572c396 ("rtlwifi: Change base routines for addition of rtl8192se and rtl8192de")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <redacted>
---
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
index 9e98c01bb90e6..9671b9247b571 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c@@ -2373,7 +2373,7 @@ u8 *rtl_find_ie(u8 *data, unsigned int len, u8 ie) pos = (u8 *)mgmt->u.beacon.variable; end = data + len; - while (pos < end) { + while (pos + 2 <= end) { if (pos + 2 + pos[1] > end) return NULL;
@@ -2597,17 +2597,17 @@ static bool rtl_find_221_ie(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u8 *data, pos = (u8 *)mgmt->u.beacon.variable; end = data + len; - while (pos < end) { - if (pos[0] == 221) { + while (pos + 2 <= end) { + if (pos + 2 + pos[1] > end) + return false; + + if (pos[0] == 221 && pos[1] >= 3) { vendor_ie.length = pos[1]; vendor_ie.octet = &pos[2]; if (rtl_chk_vendor_ouisub(hw, vendor_ie)) return true; } - if (pos + 2 + pos[1] > end) - return false; - pos += 2 + pos[1]; } return false;
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