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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 24, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: dwc3: ep0: fix NULL pointer exception

There is no validation of the index from dwc3_wIndex_to_dep() and we might
be referring a non-existing ep and trigger a NULL pointer exception. In
certain configurations we might use fewer eps and the index might wrongly
indicate a larger ep index than existing.

By adding this validation from the patch we can actually report a wrong
index back to the caller.

In our usecase we are using a composite device on an older kernel, but
upstream might use this fix also. Unfortunately, I cannot describe the
hardware for others to reproduce the issue as it is a proprietary
implementation.

[ 82.958261] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000a4
[ 82.966891] Mem abort info:
[ 82.969663] ESR = 0x96000006
[ 82.972703] Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 82.978603] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 82.981642] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 82.984765] Data abort info:
[ 82.987631] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006
[ 82.991449] CM = 0, WnR = 0
[ 82.994409] user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp = 00000000c6210ccc
[ 83.000999] [00000000000000a4] pgd=0000000053aa5003, pud=0000000053aa5003, pmd=0000000000000000
[ 83.009685] Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 83.026433] Process irq/62-dwc3 (pid: 303, stack limit = 0x000000003985154c)
[ 83.033470] CPU: 0 PID: 303 Comm: irq/62-dwc3 Not tainted 4.19.124 #1
[ 83.044836] pstate: 60000085 (nZCv daIf -PAN -UAO)
[ 83.049628] pc : dwc3_ep0_handle_feature+0x414/0x43c
[ 83.054558] lr : dwc3_ep0_interrupt+0x3b4/0xc94

...

[ 83.141788] Call trace:
[ 83.144227] dwc3_ep0_handle_feature+0x414/0x43c
[ 83.148823] dwc3_ep0_interrupt+0x3b4/0xc94
[ 83.181546] ---[ end trace aac6b5267d84c32f ]---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 21, 2024
Last updated Dec 24, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47269

GHSA ID

GHSA-qp63-w47q-g9vj

Source code

No known source code

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