Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-25258 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
PHYSICAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The USB Gadget subsystem lacks certain validation of interface OS descriptor requests (ones with a large array index and ones associated with NULL function pointer retrieval). Memory corruption might occur.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.10
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.10
- https://github.com/szymonh/d-os-descriptor
- https://github.com/szymonh/d-os-descriptor
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/75e5b4849b81e19e9efe1654b30d7f3151c33c2c
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/75e5b4849b81e19e9efe1654b30d7f3151c33c2c
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TCW2KZYJ2H6BKZE3CVLHRIXYDGNYYC5P/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TCW2KZYJ2H6BKZE3CVLHRIXYDGNYYC5P/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0007/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0007/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5092
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5092
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096