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net80211: mitigation against A-MSDU design flaw

Mitigate A-MSDU injection attacks by detecting if the destination address
of a subframe equals an RFC1042 (i.e., LLC/SNAP) header, and if so
dropping the complete A-MSDU frame.  This mitigates known attacks,
although new (unknown) aggregation-based attacks may remain possible.

This defense works because in A-MSDU aggregation injection attacks, a
normal encrypted Wi-Fi frame is turned into an A-MSDU frame. This means
the first 6 bytes of the first A-MSDU subframe correspond to an RFC1042
header. In other words, the destination MAC address of the first A-MSDU
subframe contains the start of an RFC1042 header during an aggregation
attack. We can detect this and thereby prevent this specific attack.

This relates to section 7.2 in the 2021 Usenix "FragAttacks" (Fragment
and Forge: Breaking Wi-Fi Through Frame Aggregation and Fragmentation)
paper.

Submitted by:	Mathy Vanhoef (Mathy.Vanhoef kuleuven.be)
Security:	CVE-2020-24588
PR:		256119

(cherry picked from commit f024bdf1155f36d2d8c4caa533b66e4040c4c469)
(cherry picked from commit 41ca1d50a8657959df2009daa300dda56a090d5e)

Git Hash:   76ee776f4d9f146f7a97ac9bab388c51a1c787c9
Git Author: Mathy.Vanhoef@kuleuven.be
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