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Commit cb3b9b8a authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg Committed by Yang Yingliang
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mac80211: do not accept/forward invalid EAPOL frames


stable inclusion
from linux-4.19.193
commit 24347f561816634ab780bf7e03deeb049898b3bc
CVE: CVE-2020-26139

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commit a8c4d76a8dd4fb9666fc8919a703d85fb8f44ed8 upstream.

EAPOL frames are used for authentication and key management between the
AP and each individual STA associated in the BSS. Those frames are not
supposed to be sent by one associated STA to another associated STA
(either unicast for broadcast/multicast).

Similarly, in 802.11 they're supposed to be sent to the authenticator
(AP) address.

Since it is possible for unexpected EAPOL frames to result in misbehavior
in supplicant implementations, it is better for the AP to not allow such
cases to be forwarded to other clients either directly, or indirectly if
the AP interface is part of a bridge.

Accept EAPOL (control port) frames only if they're transmitted to the
own address, or, due to interoperability concerns, to the PAE group
address.

Disable forwarding of EAPOL (or well, the configured control port
protocol) frames back to wireless medium in all cases. Previously, these
frames were accepted from fully authenticated and authorized stations
and also from unauthenticated stations for one of the cases.

Additionally, to avoid forwarding by the bridge, rewrite the PAE group
address case to the local MAC address.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Co-developed-by: default avatarJouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJouni Malinen <jouni@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210511200110.cb327ed0cabe.Ib7dcffa2a31f0913d660de65ba3c8aca75b1d10f@changeid


Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarXiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYue Haibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
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