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mac80211: reject ToDS broadcast data frames
commit 3018e947d7fd536d57e2b550c33e456d921fff8c upstream. AP/AP_VLAN modes don't accept any real 802.11 multicast data frames, but since they do need to accept broadcast management frames the same is currently permitted for data frames. This opens a security problem because such frames would be decrypted with the GTK, and could even contain unicast L3 frames. Since the spec says that ToDS frames must always have the BSSID as the RA (addr1), reject any other data frames. The problem was originally reported in "Predicting, Decrypting, and Abusing WPA2/802.11 Group Keys" at usenix https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical-sessions/presentation/vanhoef and brought to my attention by Jouni. Reported-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --
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@@ -3396,6 +3396,27 @@ static bool ieee80211_accept_frame(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
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!ether_addr_equal(bssid, hdr->addr1))
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return false;
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}
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/*
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* 802.11-2016 Table 9-26 says that for data frames, A1 must be
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* the BSSID - we've checked that already but may have accepted
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* the wildcard (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff).
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*
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* It also says:
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* The BSSID of the Data frame is determined as follows:
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* a) If the STA is contained within an AP or is associated
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* with an AP, the BSSID is the address currently in use
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* by the STA contained in the AP.
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*
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* So we should not accept data frames with an address that's
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* multicast.
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*
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* Accepting it also opens a security problem because stations
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* could encrypt it with the GTK and inject traffic that way.
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*/
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if (ieee80211_is_data(hdr->frame_control) && multicast)
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return false;
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return true;
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case NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS:
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if (bssid || !ieee80211_is_data(hdr->frame_control))

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