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author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-10-05 10:14:42 +0200 |
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committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-10-12 09:19:09 +0200 |
commit | ea720935cf6686f72def9d322298bf7e9bd53377 (patch) | |
tree | 688766daf907637ea36351f6110f4b4d5005c027 /Documentation/pcmcia | |
parent | 6b25e21fa6f26d0f0d45f161d169029411c84286 (diff) | |
download | linux-ea720935cf6686f72def9d322298bf7e9bd53377.tar.bz2 |
mac80211: discard multicast and 4-addr A-MSDUs
In mac80211, multicast A-MSDUs are accepted in many cases that
they shouldn't be accepted in:
* drop A-MSDUs with a multicast A1 (RA), as required by the
spec in 9.11 (802.11-2012 version)
* drop A-MSDUs with a 4-addr header, since the fourth address
can't actually be useful for them; unless 4-address frame
format is actually requested, even though the fourth address
is still not useful in this case, but ignored
Accepting the first case, in particular, is very problematic
since it allows anyone else with possession of a GTK to send
unicast frames encapsulated in a multicast A-MSDU, even when
the AP has client isolation enabled.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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