linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mwifiex: fix division by zero in fw download path

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:28:18 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
        Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi017@...il.com>,
        Sharvari Harisangam <sharvari.harisangam@....com>,
        Xinming Hu <huxinming820@...il.com>,
        Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mwifiex: fix division by zero in fw download path

Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org> wrote:

> Add the missing endpoint sanity checks to probe() to avoid division by
> zero in mwifiex_write_data_sync() in case a malicious device has broken
> descriptors (or when doing descriptor fuzz testing).
> 
> Only add checks for the firmware-download boot stage, which require both
> command endpoints, for now. The driver looks like it will handle a
> missing endpoint during normal operation without oopsing, albeit not
> very gracefully as it will try to submit URBs to the default pipe and
> fail.
> 
> Note that USB core will reject URBs submitted for endpoints with zero
> wMaxPacketSize but that drivers doing packet-size calculations still
> need to handle this (cf. commit 2548288b4fb0 ("USB: Fix: Don't skip
> endpoint descriptors with maxpacket=0")).
> 
> Fixes: 4daffe354366 ("mwifiex: add support for Marvell USB8797 chipset")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org      # 3.5
> Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@...vell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

89f8765a11d8 mwifiex: fix division by zero in fw download path

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20211027080819.6675-4-johan@kernel.org/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches