usb: fix various gadget panics on 10gbps cabling (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-47267
MEDIUM 6.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.68 % · percentile 53 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: fix various gadget panics on 10gbps cabling usb_assign_descriptors() is called with 5 parameters, the last 4 of which are the usb_descriptor_header for: full-speed (USB1.1 - 12Mbps [including USB1.0 low-speed @ 1.5Mbps), high-speed (USB2.0 - 480Mbps), super-speed (USB3.0 - 5Gbps), super-speed-plus (USB3.1 - 10Gbps). The differences between full/high/super-speed descriptors are usually substantial (due to changes in the maximum usb block size from 64 to 512 to 1024 bytes and other differences in the specs), while the difference between 5 and 10Gbps descriptors may be as little as nothing (in many cases the same tuning is simply good enough). However if a gadget driver calls usb_assign_descriptors() with a NULL descriptor for super-speed-plus and is then used on a max 10gbps configuration, the kernel will crash with a null pointer dereference, when a 10gbps capable device port + cable + host port combination shows up. (This wouldn't happen if the gadget max-speed was set to 5gbps, but it of course defaults to the maximum, and there's no real reason to artificially limit it) The fix is to simply use the 5gbps descriptor as the 10gbps descriptor, if a 10gbps descriptor wasn't provided. Obviously this won't fix the problem if the 5gbps descriptor is also NULL, but such cases can't be so trivially solved (and any such gadgets are unlikely to be used with USB3 ports any way).

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 10287baec761d33f0a82d84b46e37a44030350d8 < fd24be23abf3e94260be0f00bb42c7e91d495f87 ; affected 10287baec761d33f0a82d84b46e37a44030350d8 < 70cd19cb5bd94bbb5bacfc9c1e4ee0071699a604 ; affected 10287baec761d33f0a82d84b46e37a44030350d8 < 45f9a2fe737dc0a5df270787f2231aee8985cd59 ; affected 10287baec761d33f0a82d84b46e37a44030350d8 < 5ef23506695b01d5d56a13a092a97f2478069d75 ; affected 10287baec761d33f0a82d84b46e37a44030350d8 < b972eff874637402ddc4a7dd11fb22538a0b6d28 ; affected 10287baec761d33f0a82d84b46e37a44030350d8 < ca6bc277430d90375452b60b047763a090b7673e
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.8 ; unaffected 0 < 3.8 ; unaffected 4.9.273 ≤ 4.9.* ; unaffected 4.14.237 ≤ 4.14.* ; unaffected 4.19.195 ≤ 4.19.* ; unaffected 5.4.126 ≤ 5.4.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD