Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux, Linux 5.15

A flaw in incorrect access control in the Linux kernel’s USB core subsystem was discovered in the way users attach USB devices. A local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel’s driver for ASIX AX88179178A-based USB 2.0/3.0 Gigabit Ethernet devices. The vulnerability involves multiple out-of-bounds reads and possible out-of-bounds writes...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

The brcm80211 component in the Linux kernel, from version 6.5.10 onwards, has a use-after-free issue in the code for disconnecting devices via hotplug i.e., removing the USB connection. For attackers who have physical access and local privileges, “this could be exploited in a real-world scenario....

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: tcpm: Fixed NULL pointer dereferencing in tcpmpdsvdm. It is possible that typecregisterpartner returns ERRPTR upon failure. When port-partner is an error, a NULL pointer dereferencing may occur, as shown below:...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: aqc111: Check the packet for fixup for true limits. If a device sends a packet that lies between 0 and sizeofu64, the value passed to skbtrim as the packet length will wrap around, resulting in a very large value. The driver...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: core: Fixed a deadlock in the “disable” sysfs attribute. The show and store callback routines for the “disable” sysfs attribute in port.c acquire the device lock for the port’s parent hub. This can cause problems if another...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux-6.1, Linux-5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: Gadget: fncm: Fixed UAF Use-After-Free in the ncm object after re-binding after a USB EP transport error When the ncm function is working, the usb0 interface is stopped due to a link failure. In this case, the ethstop functi...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux, Linux-5.10, Linux-5.15, Linux-6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: Hub – Protection against access to uninitialized BOS descriptors Many functions in drivers/usb/core/hub.c and drivers/usb/core/hub.h access fields within udev-bos without checking whether they have been allocated and...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.15, Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: sony: Fixed a potential memory leak in sonyprobe. If an error occurs after a successful usballocurb call, usbfreeurb should be called...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: nfcmrvl: Fixed a memory leak in nfcmrvlplaydeferred. Similar to the handling of playdeferred in commit 19cfe912c37b “Bluetooth: btusb: Fixed a memory leak in playdeferred”, we thought a patch might be necessary here as well...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: ncm: Fix handling of zero block length packets When connecting to a Linux host with CDCNCMNTBDEFSIZETX set to 65536, it was observed that we receive short packets, which sometimes occur at intervals of 5–10 seconds...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Added a sanity check for OOB writes during silencing. During silencing, the playback URB packets are processed in the implicit fb mode before actual playback. We assume blindly that the received packets fit withi...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux, Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel up to 5.15.2, mwifiexusbrecv in drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/usb.c allows an attacker who can connect a crafted USB device to cause a denial of service skboverpanic...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, and Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Fixed a use-after-free in sndusbmixerfree When sndusbcreatemixer fails, sndusbmixerfree frees mixer-idelems, but the controls that were previously added to the card still reference the freed memory. Later, when...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux

A flaw related to the use of “free” in the Linux kernel’s Video4Linux driver was discovered in the way that triggers em28xxusbprobe, for Empia 28xx-based TV cards. A local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 5.10, Linux 6.1, Linux, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Stop parsing channel bits when all channels are found. If a USB audio device sets more bits than the number of channels it supports, it may write data outside of the map array...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Wifi: libertas – Fixed a possible reference count leak in ifusbprobe. The function usbgetdev will be called before lbsgetfirmwareasync. This means that the function usbputdev must be called when lbsgetfirmwareasync fails...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: ath9k: Fixed a use-after-free in ath9khifusbrxcb. Syzbot reported a use-after-free during the Read operation in ath9khifusbrxcb. The problem arose from incorrect initialization of htchandle-drvpriv. A likely call stack that...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: USB: core: Prevent nested device-reset calls Automatic kernel fuzzing revealed a recursive locking violation in usb-storage. ============================================ WARNING: Possible recursive locking detected 5.18.0 3 No...

Astra Linux – Vulnerabilities in Linux 5.10, Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: Cavium-Octeon: The issue of missing nodeput in octeon2usbclocksstart has been fixed. We should call nodeput for the reference uctlnode returned by ofgetparent, as this will increase the refcount. Otherwise, there will be a...