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CVE-2014-2672: ath9k: protect tid->sched check · torvalds/linux@21f8aae
Race condition in the ath_tx_aggr_sleep function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a large amount of network traffic that triggers certain list deletions.
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ath9k: protect tid->sched check
We check tid->sched without a lock taken on ath_tx_aggr_sleep(). That is race condition which can result of doing list_del(&tid->list) twice (second time with poisoned list node) and cause crash like shown below:
[424271.637220] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00100104 [424271.637328] IP: [<f90fc072>] ath_tx_aggr_sleep+0x62/0xe0 [ath9k] … [424271.639953] Call Trace: [424271.639998] [<f90f6900>] ? ath9k_get_survey+0x110/0x110 [ath9k] [424271.640083] [<f90f6942>] ath9k_sta_notify+0x42/0x50 [ath9k] [424271.640177] [<f809cfef>] sta_ps_start+0x8f/0x1c0 [mac80211] [424271.640258] [<c10f730e>] ? free_compound_page+0x2e/0x40 [424271.640346] [<f809e915>] ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x9d5/0x2340 [mac80211] [424271.640437] [<c112f048>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x1d8/0x1f0 [424271.640510] [<c1345a84>] ? kfree_skbmem+0x34/0x90 [424271.640578] [<c10fc23c>] ? put_page+0x2c/0x40 [424271.640640] [<c1345a84>] ? kfree_skbmem+0x34/0x90 [424271.640706] [<c1345a84>] ? kfree_skbmem+0x34/0x90 [424271.640787] [<f809dde3>] ? ieee80211_rx_handlers_result+0x73/0x1d0 [mac80211] [424271.640897] [<f80a07a0>] ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0x520/0xad0 [mac80211] [424271.641009] [<f809e22d>] ? ieee80211_rx_handlers+0x2ed/0x2340 [mac80211] [424271.641104] [<c13846ce>] ? ip_output+0x7e/0xd0 [424271.641182] [<f80a1057>] ieee80211_rx+0x307/0x7c0 [mac80211] [424271.641266] [<f90fa6ee>] ath_rx_tasklet+0x88e/0xf70 [ath9k] [424271.641358] [<f80a0f2c>] ? ieee80211_rx+0x1dc/0x7c0 [mac80211] [424271.641445] [<f90f82db>] ath9k_tasklet+0xcb/0x130 [ath9k]
Bug report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70551
Reported-and-tested-by: Max Sydorenko [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka [email protected] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [email protected]
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