GHSA-3598-6XHQ-V9Q3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-12-27 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:31
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mwifiex: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write warning in mwifiex_config_scan()

Replace one-element array with a flexible-array member in struct mwifiex_ie_types_wildcard_ssid_params to fix the following warning on a MT8173 Chromebook (mt8173-elm-hana):

[ 356.775250] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 356.784543] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 6) of single field "wildcard_ssid_tlv->ssid" at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:904 (size 1) [ 356.813403] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 742 at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:904 mwifiex_scan_networks+0x4fc/0xf28 [mwifiex]

The "(size 6)" above is exactly the length of the SSID of the network this device was connected to. The source of the warning looks like:

ssid_len = user_scan_in->ssid_list[i].ssid_len;
[...]
memcpy(wildcard_ssid_tlv->ssid,
       user_scan_in->ssid_list[i].ssid, ssid_len);

There is a #define WILDCARD_SSID_TLV_MAX_SIZE that uses sizeof() on this struct, but it already didn't account for the size of the one-element array, so it doesn't need to be changed.

Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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  "aliases": [
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  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: mwifiex: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write warning in mwifiex_config_scan()\n\nReplace one-element array with a flexible-array member in `struct\nmwifiex_ie_types_wildcard_ssid_params` to fix the following warning\non a MT8173 Chromebook (mt8173-elm-hana):\n\n[  356.775250] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[  356.784543] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 6) of single field \"wildcard_ssid_tlv-\u003essid\" at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:904 (size 1)\n[  356.813403] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 742 at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:904 mwifiex_scan_networks+0x4fc/0xf28 [mwifiex]\n\nThe \"(size 6)\" above is exactly the length of the SSID of the network\nthis device was connected to. The source of the warning looks like:\n\n    ssid_len = user_scan_in-\u003essid_list[i].ssid_len;\n    [...]\n    memcpy(wildcard_ssid_tlv-\u003essid,\n           user_scan_in-\u003essid_list[i].ssid, ssid_len);\n\nThere is a #define WILDCARD_SSID_TLV_MAX_SIZE that uses sizeof() on this\nstruct, but it already didn\u0027t account for the size of the one-element\narray, so it doesn\u0027t need to be changed.",
  "id": "GHSA-3598-6xhq-v9q3",
  "modified": "2025-11-03T21:31:50Z",
  "published": "2024-12-27T15:31:53Z",
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