Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:15:25 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: [patch 06/23] libertas: fix buffer overrun
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2.6.26-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

commit 48735d8d8bd701b1e0cd3d49c21e5e385ddcb077 upstream

If somebody sends an invalid beacon/probe response, that can trash the
whole BSS descriptor. The descriptor is, luckily, large enough so that
it cannot scribble past the end of it; it's well above 400 bytes long.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
@@ -598,8 +598,8 @@ static int lbs_process_bss(struct bss_de
 
 		switch (elem->id) {
 		case MFIE_TYPE_SSID:
-			bss->ssid_len = elem->len;
-			memcpy(bss->ssid, elem->data, elem->len);
+			bss->ssid_len = min_t(int, 32, elem->len);
+			memcpy(bss->ssid, elem->data, bss->ssid_len);
 			lbs_deb_scan("got SSID IE: '%s', len %u\n",
 			             escape_essid(bss->ssid, bss->ssid_len),
 			             bss->ssid_len);

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