CVE-2022-48805

High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: ax88179_178a: Fix out-of-bounds accesses in RX fixup ax88179_rx_fixup() contains several out-of-bounds accesses that can be triggered by a malicious (or defective) USB device, in particular: - The metadata array (hdr_off..hdr_off+2*pkt_cnt) can be out of bounds, causing OOB reads and (on big-endian systems) OOB endianness flips. - A packet can overlap the metadata array, causing a later OOB endianness flip to corrupt data used by a cloned SKB that has already been handed off into the network stack. - A packet SKB can be constructed whose tail is far beyond its end, causing out-of-bounds heap data to be considered part of the SKB's data. I have tested that this can be used by a malicious USB device to send a bogus ICMPv6 Echo Request and receive an ICMPv6 Echo Reply in response that contains random kernel heap data. It's probably also possible to get OOB writes from this on a little-endian system somehow - maybe by triggering skb_cow() via IP options processing -, but I haven't tested that.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedJul 16, 2024
First seenJul 16, 2024

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel4.9.303, 4.14.268, 4.19.231, 5.4.180, 5.10.101, 5.15.24, 5.16.10 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel3.9 ≤ v < 4.9.303, 4.10 ≤ v < 4.14.268, 4.15 ≤ v < 4.19.231, 4.20 ≤ v < 5.4.180, 5.5 ≤ v < 5.10.101, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.24, 5.16 ≤ v < 5.16.10, 5.174.9.303, 4.14.268, 4.19.231, 5.4.180, 5.10.101, 5.15.24, 5.16.10

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