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Do not mix plaintext and encrypted fragments in protected Wi-Fi networks. This fixes CVE-2020-26147. Previously, an attacker was able to first forward a legitimate encrypted fragment towards a victim, followed by a plaintext fragment. The encrypted and plaintext fragment would then be reassembled. For further details see Section 6.3 and Appendix D in the paper "Fragment and Forge: Breaking Wi-Fi Through Frame Aggregation and Fragmentation". Because of this change there are now two equivalent conditions in the code to determine if a received fragment requires sequential PNs, so we also move this test to a separate function to make the code easier to maintain. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mathy Vanhoef <Mathy.Vanhoef@kuleuven.be> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210511200110.30c4394bb835.I5acfdb552cc1d20c339c262315950b3eac491397@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.