Wind River Support Network

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  wifi: cfg80211: advance loop vars in cfg80211_merge_profile()  cfg80211_merge_profile() reassembles a Multi-BSSID non-transmitted BSS profile that has been split across multiple consecutive MBSSID elements. Its while-loop calls  	cfg80211_get_profile_continuation(ie, ielen, mbssid_elem, sub_elem)  but never advances mbssid_elem or sub_elem inside the body.  Each iteration therefore searches for a continuation that follows the same fixed pair; the helper returns the same next_mbssid; and the same next_sub bytes are memcpy()'d into merged_ie at a growing offset until the buffer fills.  Advance both mbssid_elem and sub_elem to the just-consumed continuation so the next call to cfg80211_get_profile_continuation() searches for a further continuation beyond it (or returns NULL when none exists).  A specially-crafted malicious beacon can take advantage of this bug to cause the kernel to spend an excessive amount of time in cfg80211_merge_profile (up to as much as 2ms per beacon received), which could theoretically be abused in some way.