[PATCH v3 3/3] wifi: wl18xx: fix OOB read from firmware SSID/password lengths in smart config event

From: Tristan Madani

Date: Tue Apr 21 2026 - 09:58:00 EST


From: Tristan Madani <tristan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The firmware-controlled sc_ssid_len and sc_pwd_len values are used as
nla_put sizes from fixed-size mailbox buffers (32 and 64 bytes) without
bounds checking. Values exceeding the buffer sizes cause out-of-bounds
reads delivered to userspace via nl80211 vendor events.

Clamp the lengths to the mailbox buffer sizes before use.

Fixes: e93e15fb47e5 ("wlcore/wl18xx: handle smart config events")
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v3:
- Regenerated from wireless-next with proper git format-patch to
produce valid index hashes (v2 had post-processed index lines).

Changes in v2:
- No code changes from v1.

drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/event.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/event.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/event.c
index fac12a8590355..19c7f5bdada5e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/event.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/event.c
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ static int wlcore_smart_config_decode_event(struct wl1271 *wl,
{
struct sk_buff *skb;

+ ssid_len = min_t(u8, ssid_len, 32);
+ pwd_len = min_t(u8, pwd_len, 64);
+
wl1271_debug(DEBUG_EVENT, "SMART_CONFIG_DECODE_EVENT_ID");
wl1271_dump_ascii(DEBUG_EVENT, "SSID:", ssid, ssid_len);

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