CVE-2024-42236

Summary

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

usb: gadget: configfs: Prevent OOB read/write in usb_string_copy()

Userspace provided string 's' could trivially have the length zero. Left unchecked this will firstly result in an OOB read in the form if (str[0 - 1] == '\n') followed closely by an OOB write in the form str[0 - 1] = '\0'`.

There is already a validating check to catch strings that are too long. Let's supply an additional check for invalid strings that are too short.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux88af8bbe4ef781031ad3370847553f3b42ba0076 < a444c3fc264119801575ab086e03fb4952f23fd0affected
LinuxLinux88af8bbe4ef781031ad3370847553f3b42ba0076 < c95fbdde87e39e5e0ae27f28bf6711edfb985caaaffected
LinuxLinux88af8bbe4ef781031ad3370847553f3b42ba0076 < e8474a10c535e6a2024c3b06e37e4a3a23beb490affected
LinuxLinux88af8bbe4ef781031ad3370847553f3b42ba0076 < 72b8ee0d9826e8ed00e0bdfce3e46b98419b37ceaffected
LinuxLinux88af8bbe4ef781031ad3370847553f3b42ba0076 < 2d16f63d8030903e5031853e79d731ee5d474e70affected
LinuxLinux88af8bbe4ef781031ad3370847553f3b42ba0076 < d1205033e912f9332c1dbefa812e6ceb0575ce0aaffected
LinuxLinux88af8bbe4ef781031ad3370847553f3b42ba0076 < eecfefad0953b2f31aaefa058f7f348ff39c4bbaaffected
LinuxLinux88af8bbe4ef781031ad3370847553f3b42ba0076 < 6d3c721e686ea6c59e18289b400cc95c76e927e0affected
LinuxLinux3.10affected
LinuxLinux0 < 3.10unaffected
LinuxLinux4.19.318 <= 4.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.4.280 <= 5.4.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.222 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.163 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.100 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.41 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.9.10 <= 6.9.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.10 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

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