7.1 - CVE-2024-56663

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: nl80211: fix NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINK_ID off-by-one

Since the netlink attribute range validation provides inclusive checking, the *max* of attribute NL80211_ATTR_MLO_LINK_ID should be IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS - 1 otherwise causing an off-by-one.

One crash stack for demonstration: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: wild-memory-access in ieee80211_tx_control_port+0x3b6/0xca0 net/mac80211/tx.c:5939 Read of size 6 at addr 001102080000000c by task fuzzer.386/9508

CPU: 1 PID: 9508 Comm: syz.1.386 Not tainted 6.1.70 #2 Call Trace:

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x177/0x231 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_report+0xe0/0x750 mm/kasan/report.c:398
kasan_report+0x139/0x170 mm/kasan/report.c:495
kasan_check_range+0x287/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
memcpy+0x25/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:65
ieee80211_tx_control_port+0x3b6/0xca0 net/mac80211/tx.c:5939
rdev_tx_control_port net/wireless/rdev-ops.h:761 [inline]
nl80211_tx_control_port+0x7b3/0xc40 net/wireless/nl80211.c:15453
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22e/0x320 net/netlink/genetlink.c:756
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:833 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x539/0x740 net/netlink/genetlink.c:850
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1de/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2508
genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:861
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1326 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x74b/0x8c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1352
netlink_sendmsg+0x882/0xb90 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1874
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:716 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:728 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x5cc/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2499
___sys_sendmsg+0x21c/0x290 net/socket.c:2553
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2582 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2591 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg+0x19e/0x270 net/socket.c:2589
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x45/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Update the policy to ensure correct validation.