uhubctl

uhubctl uhubctl is utility to control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs. Smart hub is defined as one that implements per-port power switching. Original idea for this code was inspired by hub-ctrl.c by Niibe Yutaka: https://www.gniibe.org/development/ac-power-control-by-USB-hub Compatible USB...

CVE-2026-89470

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's crosusbpd-charger driver. This driver, which manages USB power delivery, incorrectly processes port count information from an embedded controller. A malicious embedded controller could provide an exaggerated port count, leading to an out-of-bounds write and...

CVE-2026-89471

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's crosusbpd-charger driver. A malicious or compromised embedded controller EC can report an excessive number of USB Power Delivery PD ports. This causes the driver to write beyond the allocated memory buffer when populating a fixed-size array for port data,...

cros_usbpd_notify_init Heap Buffer Overflow DoS

The vulnerability of the crosusbpdnotifyinit function in the drivers/platform/chrome/crosusbpdnotify.c module, which is part of the Chrome OS hardware support for Linux kernel-based operating systems, stems from the lack of checking the return value. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an...

PT-2025-46595

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A flaw exists in the Linux kernel related to USB runtime power management PM and Real-Time Network Layer RTNL interactions with the AX88772 network adapter. The issue arises when runtime...

CVE-2022-50468

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/chrome: crosusbpdnotify: Fix error handling in crosusbpdnotifyinit The following WARNING message was given when rmmod crosusbpdnotify: Unexpected driver unregister! WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 253 at drivers/base/driver.c:270...

CVE-2024-40903: Use After Free

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: tcpm: fix use-after-free case in tcpmregistersourcecaps There could be a potential use-after-free case in tcpmregistersourcecaps. This could happen when: new say invalid source caps are advertised the existing source...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47331

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: common: usb-conn-gpio: fix NULL pointer dereference of charger When power on system with OTG cable, IDDIG's interrupt arises before the charger registration, it will cause a NULL pointer dereference, fix the issue by...

SUSE CVE-2023-52477

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: hub: Guard against accesses to uninitialized BOS descriptors Many functions in drivers/usb/core/hub.c and drivers/usb/core/hub.h access fields inside udev-bos without checking if it was allocated and initialized. If...

CVE-2023-32655

Path transversal in some IntelR NUC Kits & Mini PCs - NUC8i7HVK & NUC8HNK USB Type C power delivery controller installatio software before version 1.0.10.3 for Windows may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access...

CVE-2019-14356

On Coldcard MK1 and MK2 devices, a side channel for the row-based OLED display was found. The power consumption of each row-based display cycle depends on the number of illuminated pixels, allowing a partial recovery of display contents. For example, a hardware implant in the USB cable might be...

Tamper proofing review: the iZettle card payment terminal

Tamper resistance is an increasingly important factor in smart devices. Together with secure hardware design and defensive coding, it can deliver a very secure device. One of the most common areas the average consumer will encounter tamper resistant devices is in payment terminals, or Pin Entry...

SUSE-SU-2017:1301-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Notable new features: - Toleration of newer crypto hardware for z Systems - USB 2.0 Link power management for Haswell-ULT The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-7308: The packetsetring functi...