nfc: nci: Fix uninit-value in nci_rx_work
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: nci: Fix uninit-value in nci_rx_work syzbot reported the following uninit-value access issue [1] nci_rx_work() parses received packet from ndev->rx_q. It should be validated header size, payload size and total packet size before processing the packet. If an invalid packet is detected, it should be silently discarded.
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/406cfac9debd4a6d3dc5d9258ee086372a8c08b6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/485ded868ed62ceb2acb3a459d7843fd71472619
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f80b786ab0550d0020191a59077b2c7e069db2d1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad4d196d2008c7f413167f0a693feb4f0439d7fe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8c8e0d0d214c877fbad555df5b3ed558cd9b0c3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e53a7f8afcbd2886f2a94c5d56757328109730ea
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/017ff397624930fd7ac7f1761f3c9d6a7100f68c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4a87abf588536d1cdfb128595e6e680af5cf3ed
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