Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-0571 - Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Linux Kernel 3.10/3.18
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom Wi-Fi driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-34203305. References: B-RB#111541.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 2 |
Seebug
| bulletinFamily | exploit |
| description | **Detailed analysis:** * https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.tw/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_4.html * https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.tw/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_11.html Broadcom produces the Wi-Fi HardMAC SoCs which are used to handle the PHY and MAC layer processing. These chips are present in both mobile devices and Wi-Fi routers, and are capable of handling many Wi-Fi related events without delegating to the host OS. On Android devices, the "bcmdhd" driver is used in order to communicate with the Wi-Fi SoC (also referred to as "dongle"). When frames are transmitted from the dongle to the host OS on the SDIO interface, they are encapsulated in several additional layers. First, the initial framing is done in hardware by SDPCM, which includes hardware-added headers. Next are the software-added headers, which indicate the logical properties of the data being transmitted (such as the "channel" on which the data is transmitted - indicating either data frames or out-of-band responses to ioctls, etc.). Normally what follows these headers is the actual received frame. However, in certain cases additional information can be added to include metadata about the frame being received, such as information about the TX status, the RSSI value for the frame, etc. When this information is present and WLFC is enabled in the driver, it is parsed and stripped from the `sk_buff`, before passing it onto the frame reception handling function, "`dhd_rx_frame`". In order to parse the WLFC information, the function "dhd_prot_hdrpull" is called, which then calls "dhd_wlfc_parse_header_info" if WLFC is enabled. This function, in turn, inspects the WLFC information which is encoded in the form of a series of TLVs(see https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common.git/+/android-3.4/drivers/net/wireless/bcmdhd/include/wlfc_proto. h for more information). In short, each tag represents a different type of WLFC information element, and the length field, whenever the size of the included buffer. However, most of the included internal functions which handle WLFC information fail to validate length fields. For example, when information with the tag WLFC_CTL_TYPE_HOST_REORDER_RXPKTS is encountered, the "_dhd_wlfc_reorderinfo_indicate" function is called, which performs a simply copy operation, like so: `1. static void _dhd_wlfc_reorderinfo_indicate(uint8 *val, uint8 len, uchar *info_buf, uint *info_len) { 2. if (info_len) { 3. if (info_buf) { 4. bcopy(val, info_buf, len); 5. *info_len = len; 6. } 7. else 8. *info_len = 0; 9. } 10. }` Where "len" is the length field supplied in the TLV, "val" is a pointer to the TLV's value buffer, and "info_len" is a pointer to a stack-allocated buffer of size `WLHOST_REORDERDATA_TOTLEN ` (12) which is allocated in "dhdsdio_readframes" (or in "dhdsdio_rxglom" if the frame is glommed). An attacker controlling the dongle could send a malicious frame containing a TLV with the `WLFC_CTL_TYPE_HOST_REORDER_RXPKTS ` tag and a length field of 255. Doing so will overflow the stack-allocated buffer with attacker controlled data. Moreover, in order to enable WLFC parsing, the attacker may first craft a special BRCM ethertype packet containing the event "`WLC_E_FIFO_CREDIT_MAP`". Doing so will cause the "bcmdhd" driver to call "`dhd_wlfc_event`" in order to handle the event, which in turn will call "`dhd_wlfc_enable`", thus enabling WLFC parsing on subsequent frames. I've been able to statically verify this issue on the "bcmdhd-3.10" driver, and in the corresponding "bcmdhd" driver on the Nexus 5 (hammerhead). |
| id | SSV:92898 |
| last seen | 2017-11-19 |
| modified | 2017-04-05 |
| published | 2017-04-05 |
| reporter | Root |
| title | Broadcom: Multiple memory corruptions in "bcmdhd" when handling WLFC information (CVE-2017-0571) |