Bug 1701842 (CVE-2019-9503) - CVE-2019-9503 kernel: brcmfmac frame validation bypass
Summary: CVE-2019-9503 kernel: brcmfmac frame validation bypass
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-9503
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1701843 1704680 1704681 1704682 1704683 1704684 1704685 1733895 1734041 1828297 1828298
Blocks: 1701846 1701869
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Reported: 2019-04-22 09:11 UTC by msiddiqu
Modified: 2023-10-06 18:15 UTC (History)
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If the brcmfmac driver receives a firmware event frame from a remote source, the is_wlc_event_frame function will cause this frame to be discarded and not be processed. If the driver receives the firmware event frame from the host, the appropriate handler is called. This frame validation can be bypassed if the bus used is USB (for instance by a WiFi dongle). This can allow firmware event frames from a remote source to be processed and this can result in denial of service (DoS) condition.
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Last Closed: 2019-09-12 12:45:48 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:2767 0 None None None 2019-09-12 19:12:32 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:2703 0 None None None 2019-09-10 19:00:16 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:2741 0 None None None 2019-09-11 16:42:09 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1016 0 None None None 2020-03-31 19:11:34 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1070 0 None None None 2020-03-31 19:20:39 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2522 0 None None None 2020-06-11 02:10:02 UTC

Description msiddiqu 2019-04-22 09:11:11 UTC 
If the brcmfmac driver receives a firmware event frame from a remote source, the is_wlc_event_frame function will cause this frame to be discarded and not be processed. If the driver receives the firmware event frame from the host, the appropriate handler is called. This frame validation can be bypassed if the bus used is USB (for instance by a wifi dongle). This can allow firmware event frames from a remote source to be processed and this can result in denial of service (DoS) condition.

Introduced in:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=5b435de0d786869c95d1962121af0d7df2542009

An upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=a4176ec356c73a46c07c181c6d04039fafa34a9f

External References:

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/166939/

https://blog.quarkslab.com/reverse-engineering-broadcom-wireless-chipsets.html#cve-2019-9503-remotely-sending-firmware-events-bypassing-is-wlc-event-frame

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/broadcom-wifi-driver-flaws-expose-computers-phones-iot-to-rce-attacks/
Comment 1 msiddiqu 2019-04-22 09:11:26 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1701843]
Comment 3 Vladis Dronov 2019-04-30 09:43:53 UTC 
Note:

This vulnerability was originally called CVE-2019-8564 by mistake.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2019-05-07 04:50:01 UTC 
kernel-5.0.11-100.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2019-09-10 19:00:14 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2019:2703 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2703
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2019-09-11 16:42:07 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2019:2741 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2741
Comment 14 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-09-12 12:45:48 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9503
Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 19:11:31 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:1016 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1016
Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 19:20:36 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:1070 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1070
Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2020-06-11 02:09:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2020:2522 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2522
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