5.5

CVE-2024-56593

wifi: brcmfmac: Fix oops due to NULL pointer dereference in brcmf_sdiod_sglist_rw()

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

wifi: brcmfmac: Fix oops due to NULL pointer dereference in brcmf_sdiod_sglist_rw()

This patch fixes a NULL pointer dereference bug in brcmfmac that occurs
when a high 'sd_sgentry_align' value applies (e.g. 512) and a lot of queued SKBs
are sent from the pkt queue.

The problem is the number of entries in the pre-allocated sgtable, it is
nents = max(rxglom_size, txglom_size) + max(rxglom_size, txglom_size) >> 4 + 1.
Given the default [rt]xglom_size=32 it's actually 35 which is too small.
Worst case, the pkt queue can end up with 64 SKBs. This occurs when a new SKB
is added for each original SKB if tailroom isn't enough to hold tail_pad.
At least one sg entry is needed for each SKB. So, eventually the "skb_queue_walk loop"
in brcmf_sdiod_sglist_rw may run out of sg entries. This makes sg_next return
NULL and this causes the oops.

The patch sets nents to max(rxglom_size, txglom_size) * 2 to be able handle
the worst-case.
Btw. this requires only 64-35=29 * 16 (or 20 if CONFIG_NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH) = 464
additional bytes of memory.
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Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version < 5.4.287
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.231
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.174
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.120
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.66
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.23% 0.139
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07c020c6d14d29e5a3ea4e4576b8ecf956a80834
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/342f87d263462c2670b77ea9a32074cab2ac6fa1
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34941321b516bd7c6103bd01287d71a1804d19d3
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67a25ea28f8ec1da8894f2f115d01d3becf67dc7
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7522d7d745d13fbeff3350fe6aa56c8dae263571
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/857282b819cbaa0675aaab1e7542e2c0579f52d7
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfb3f9d3f602602de208da7bdcc0f6d5ee74af68
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html