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| author | Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com> | 2026-07-28 17:54:55 +0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2026-09-01 12:15:16 +0200 |
| commit | ff917923f4fb9c83717ba135ee47d7e4c1567bb7 (patch) | |
| tree | c38fd8fcf58e1937b17fdbc6518b6f8b797fc15a /Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst | |
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staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_action_frame_parse()grafted
rtw_action_frame_parse() takes a frame_len parameter but never
actually checks it before indexing into the frame body:
const u8 *frame_body = frame + sizeof(struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr);
...
c = frame_body[0];
...
a = frame_body[1];
frame_body already points 24 bytes (sizeof(struct
ieee80211_hdr_3addr)) into frame, so reading frame_body[0] and
frame_body[1] requires frame_len >= 26. A management action frame
shorter than that (e.g. exactly 24 bytes, the minimum a malicious
peer can send) causes a 1-2 byte out-of-bounds read.
This is reachable from rtw_cfg80211_monitor_if_xmit_entry() and
cfg80211_rtw_mgmt_tx() in ioctl_cfg80211.c, both of which pass
attacker/user-influenced frame buffers and lengths straight through.
Add the missing length check before frame_body is dereferenced.
Fixes: 554c0a3abf216 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260728125456.32359-3-meatuni001@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c45824589 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/user.rst @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +================================= +Documentation for /proc/sys/user/ +================================= + +kernel version 4.9.0 + +Copyright (c) 2016 Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +This file contains the documentation for the sysctl files in +/proc/sys/user. + +The files in this directory can be used to override the default +limits on the number of namespaces and other objects that have +per user per user namespace limits. + +The primary purpose of these limits is to stop programs that +malfunction and attempt to create a ridiculous number of objects, +before the malfunction becomes a system wide problem. It is the +intention that the defaults of these limits are set high enough that +no program in normal operation should run into these limits. + +The creation of per user per user namespace objects are charged to +the user in the user namespace who created the object and +verified to be below the per user limit in that user namespace. + +The creation of objects is also charged to all of the users +who created user namespaces the creation of the object happens +in (user namespaces can be nested) and verified to be below the per user +limits in the user namespaces of those users. + +This recursive counting of created objects ensures that creating a +user namespace does not allow a user to escape their current limits. + +Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/user: + +max_cgroup_namespaces +===================== + + The maximum number of cgroup namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. + +max_ipc_namespaces +================== + + The maximum number of ipc namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. + +max_mnt_namespaces +================== + + The maximum number of mount namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. + +max_net_namespaces +================== + + The maximum number of network namespaces that any user in the + current user namespace may create. + +max_pid_namespaces +================== + + The maximum number of pid namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. + +max_time_namespaces +=================== + + The maximum number of time namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. + +max_user_namespaces +=================== + + The maximum number of user namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. + +max_uts_namespaces +================== + + The maximum number of user namespaces that any user in the current + user namespace may create. |
