CVE-2022-50258: kernel: wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds()
Component: kernel
Severity: Moderate
CWE: CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read)
CVSS v3: 6 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H)
Public date: 2025-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential stack-out-of-bounds in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds()

This patch fixes a stack-out-of-bounds read in brcmfmac that occurs
when 'buf' that is not null-terminated is passed as an argument of
strsep() in brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds(). This buffer is filled with a firmware
version string by memcpy() in brcmf_fil_iovar_data_get().
The patch ensures buf is null-terminated.

Found by a modified version of syzkaller.

[   47.569679][ T1897] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43236b for chip BCM43236/3
[   47.582839][ T1897] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available
[   47.601565][ T1897] ==================================================================
[   47.602574][ T1897] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0
[   47.603447][ T1897] Read of size 1 at addr ffffc90001f6f000 by task kworker/0:2/1897
[   47.604336][ T1897]
[   47.604621][ T1897] CPU: 0 PID: 1897 Comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: G           O      5.14.0+ #131
[   47.605617][ T1897] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[   47.606907][ T1897] Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
[   47.607453][ T1897] Call Trace:
[   47.607801][ T1897]  dump_stack_lvl+0x8e/0xd1
[   47.608295][ T1897]  print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xf/0x334
[   47.609009][ T1897]  ? strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0
[   47.609434][ T1897]  ? strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0
[   47.609863][ T1897]  kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf
[   47.610366][ T1897]  ? strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0
[   47.610882][ T1897]  strsep+0x1b2/0x1f0
[   47.611300][ T1897]  ? brcmf_fil_iovar_data_get+0x3a/0xf0
[   47.611883][ T1897]  brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds+0x995/0xc40
[   47.612434][ T1897]  ? brcmf_c_set_joinpref_default+0x100/0x100
[   47.613078][ T1897]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0xa1/0xd0
[   47.613662][ T1897]  ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0
[   47.614208][ T1897]  ? lock_acquire+0x19d/0x4e0
[   47.614704][ T1897]  ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x110
[   47.615236][ T1897]  ? brcmf_usb_deq+0x1a7/0x260
[   47.615741][ T1897]  ? brcmf_usb_rx_fill_all+0x5a/0xf0
[   47.616288][ T1897]  brcmf_attach+0x246/0xd40
[   47.616758][ T1897]  ? wiphy_new_nm+0x1703/0x1dd0
[   47.617280][ T1897]  ? kmemdup+0x43/0x50
[   47.617720][ T1897]  brcmf_usb_probe+0x12de/0x1690
[   47.618244][ T1897]  ? brcmf_usbdev_qinit.constprop.0+0x470/0x470
[   47.618901][ T1897]  usb_probe_interface+0x2aa/0x760
[   47.619429][ T1897]  ? usb_probe_device+0x250/0x250
[   47.619950][ T1897]  really_probe+0x205/0xb70
[   47.620435][ T1897]  ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x130/0x130
[   47.621048][ T1897]  __driver_probe_device+0x311/0x4b0
[   47.621595][ T1897]  ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x130/0x130
[   47.622209][ T1897]  driver_probe_device+0x4e/0x150
[   47.622739][ T1897]  __device_attach_driver+0x1cc/0x2a0
[   47.623287][ T1897]  bus_for_each_drv+0x156/0x1d0
[   47.623796][ T1897]  ? bus_rescan_devices+0x30/0x30
[   47.624309][ T1897]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x273/0x3e0
[   47.624907][ T1897]  ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x46/0x160
[   47.625437][ T1897]  __device_attach+0x23f/0x3a0
[   47.625924][ T1897]  ? device_bind_driver+0xd0/0xd0
[   47.626433][ T1897]  ? kobject_uevent_env+0x287/0x14b0
[   47.627057][ T1897]  bus_probe_device+0x1da/0x290
[   47.627557][ T1897]  device_add+0xb7b/0x1eb0
[   47.628027][ T1897]  ? wait_for_completion+0x290/0x290
[   47.628593][ T1897]  ? __fw_devlink_link_to_suppliers+0x5a0/0x5a0
[   47.629249][ T1897]  usb_set_configuration+0xf59/0x16f0
[   47.629829][ T1897]  usb_generic_driver_probe+0x82/0xa0
[   47.630385][ T1897]  usb_probe_device+0xbb/0x250
[   47.630927][ T1897]  ? usb_suspend+0x590/0x590
[   47.631397][ T1897]  really_probe+0x205/0xb70
[   47.631855][ T1897]  ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x130/0x130
[   47.632469][ T1897]  __driver_probe_device+0x311/0x4b0
[   47.633002][ 
---truncated---


Affected upstream versions: 3.8
Fixed upstream versions: 0, 4.14.308, 4.19.276, 5.10.173, 5.15.99, 5.4.235, 6.1.16, 6.2.3, 6.3
Upstream repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Upstream fix commit: 89243a7b0ea19606ba1c2873c9d569026ccb344f