The CDC's Gun Violence Research Is in Danger

In a year pocked with fights over US government funding, Republicans are quietly trying to strip the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of its ability to research gun violence...

kernel: net/smc: fix NULL sndbuf_desc in smc_cdc_tx_handler()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: fix NULL sndbufdesc in smccdctxhandler When performing a stress test on SMC-R by rmmod mlx5ib driver during the wrk/nginx test, we found that there is a probability of triggering a panic while terminating all link groups...

PT-2025-41111

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 5.15.106-syzkaller-00249-g19c0ed55a470 Description The Linux kernel contains a flaw within the cdc ncm module related to handling excessively small values of dwNtbOutMaxSize. Specifically, the cdc ncm check tx ma...

SUSE CVE-2016-3138

The acmprobe function in drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via a USB device without both a control and a data endpoint descriptor...

SUSE CVE-2016-3951

Double free vulnerability in drivers/net/usb/cdcncm.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by inserting a USB device with an invalid USB descriptor...

SUSE CVE-2017-16534

The cdcparsecdcheader function in drivers/usb/core/message.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device...

SUSE CVE-2017-16645

The imspcugetcdcuniondesc function in drivers/input/misc/ims-pcu.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service imspcuparsecdcdata out-of-bounds read and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device...

SUSE CVE-2017-16649

The usbnetgenericcdcbind function in drivers/net/usb/cdcether.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device...

CVE-2022-36063

Azure RTOS USBx is a USB host, device, and on-the-go OTG embedded stack, fully integrated with Azure RTOS ThreadX and available for all Azure RTOS ThreadX–supported processors. Azure RTOS USBX implementation of host support for USB CDC ECM includes an integer underflow and a buffer overflow in th...

Integer overflow

Azure RTOS USBx is a USB host, device, and on-the-go OTG embedded stack, fully integrated with Azure RTOS ThreadX and available for all Azure RTOS ThreadX–supported processors. Azure RTOS USBX implementation of host support for USB CDC ECM includes an integer underflow and a buffer overflow in th...

CVE-2022-36063 USBX Host CDC ECM integer underflow with buffer overflow

Azure RTOS USBx is a USB host, device, and on-the-go OTG embedded stack, fully integrated with Azure RTOS ThreadX and available for all Azure RTOS ThreadX–supported processors. Azure RTOS USBX implementation of host support for USB CDC ECM includes an integer underflow and a buffer overflow in th...

CVE-2022-36063 USBX Host CDC ECM integer underflow with buffer overflow

Azure RTOS USBx is a USB host, device, and on-the-go OTG embedded stack, fully integrated with Azure RTOS ThreadX and available for all Azure RTOS ThreadX–supported processors. Azure RTOS USBX implementation of host support for USB CDC ECM includes an integer underflow and a buffer overflow in th...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3822-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

GSD-2022-1000816 CDC-NCM: avoid overflow in sanity checking

CDC-NCM: avoid overflow in sanity checking This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.15.26 by commit...

PT-2022-7498 · Linux +5 · Linux Kernel +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to the CDC-NCM component in the Linux kernel, where a broken device may provide an extreme offset and a reasonable length for a fragment, causing an integer overfl...

PT-2021-8073 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 5.16.0-rc4+ Description: A crash occurs in the Linux kernel when the smc cdc tx handler function tries to access smc sock but smc release has already freed it. This happens due to a race condition between smc cd...

Omicron Phishing Scam Already Spotted in UK

The global pandemic has provided cover for all sorts of phishing scams over the past couple of years, and the rise in alarm over the spread of the latest COVID-19 variant, Omicron, is no exception. As public health professionals across the globe grapple with what they fear could be an even more...

CISA’s Top 30 Bugs: One’s Old Enough to Buy Beer

In a perfect world, CISA would laminate cards with the year’s top 30 vulnerabilities: You could whip it out and ask a business if they’ve bandaged these specific wounds before you hand over your cash. This is not a perfect world. There are no laminated vulnerability cards. But at least we have th...

CVE-2020-4821

IBM InfoSphere Data Replication 11.4 and IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture for z/OS 10.2.1, under certain configurations, could allow a user to bypass authentication mechanisms using an empty password string. IBM X-Force ID: 189834...

COVID-19 Vaccine Spear-Phishing Attacks Jump 26 Percent

As Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson roll out COVID-19 vaccines cybercriminals are preying on the those hungry to get in line for immunization. Between October and January the average number of COVID-19 vaccine-related spear-phishing attacks grew 26 percent, said Barracuda Networks researcher...