Module Name:    src
Committed By:   christos
Date:           Tue May  3 18:20:30 UTC 2016

Modified Files:
        src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/wpa_supplicant: config.c

Log Message:
http://w1.fi/security/2016-1/0002-Reject-psk-parameter-set-with-invalid-passphrase-cha.patch
WPA/WPA2-Personal passphrase is not allowed to include control
characters. Reject a passphrase configuration attempt if that passphrase
includes an invalid passphrase.

This fixes an issue where wpa_supplicant could have updated the
configuration file psk parameter with arbitrary data from the control
interface or D-Bus interface. While those interfaces are supposed to be
accessible only for trusted users/applications, it may be possible that
an untrusted user has access to a management software component that
does not validate the passphrase value before passing it to
wpa_supplicant.

This could allow such an untrusted user to inject up to 63 characters of
almost arbitrary data into the configuration file. Such configuration
file could result in wpa_supplicant trying to load a library (e.g.,
opensc_engine_path, pkcs11_engine_path, pkcs11_module_path,
load_dynamic_eap) from user controlled location when starting again.
This would allow code from that library to be executed under the
wpa_supplicant process privileges.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.1.1.6 -r1.2 \
    src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/wpa_supplicant/config.c

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/wpa_supplicant/config.c
diff -u src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/wpa_supplicant/config.c:1.1.1.6 src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/wpa_supplicant/config.c:1.2
--- src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/wpa_supplicant/config.c:1.1.1.6	Wed Apr  1 15:24:40 2015
+++ src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/wpa_supplicant/config.c	Tue May  3 14:20:30 2016
@@ -455,6 +455,12 @@ static int wpa_config_parse_psk(const st
 		}
 		wpa_hexdump_ascii_key(MSG_MSGDUMP, "PSK (ASCII passphrase)",
 				      (u8 *) value, len);
+		if (has_ctrl_char((u8 *) value, len)) {
+			wpa_printf(MSG_ERROR,
+				   "Line %d: Invalid passphrase character",
+				   line);
+			return -1;
+		}
 		if (ssid->passphrase && os_strlen(ssid->passphrase) == len &&
 		    os_memcmp(ssid->passphrase, value, len) == 0)
 			return 0;

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