CVE-2023-52894

Updated: 2024-09-14 04:52:33.92708

Description:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: f_ncm: fix potential NULL ptr deref in ncm_bitrate() In Google internal bug 265639009 we've received an (as yet) unreproducible crash report from an aarch64 GKI 5.10.149-android13 running device. AFAICT the source code is at: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/refs/tags/ASB-2022-12-05_13-5.10 The call stack is: ncm_close() -> ncm_notify() -> ncm_do_notify() with the crash at: ncm_do_notify+0x98/0x270 Code: 79000d0b b9000a6c f940012a f9400269 (b9405d4b) Which I believe disassembles to (I don't know ARM assembly, but it looks sane enough to me...): // halfword (16-bit) store presumably to event->wLength (at offset 6 of struct usb_cdc_notification) 0B 0D 00 79 strh w11, [x8, #6] // word (32-bit) store presumably to req->Length (at offset 8 of struct usb_request) 6C 0A 00 B9 str w12, [x19, #8] // x10 (NULL) was read here from offset 0 of valid pointer x9 // IMHO we're reading 'cdev->gadget' and getting NULL // gadget is indeed at offset 0 of struct usb_composite_dev 2A 01 40 F9 ldr x10, [x9] // loading req->buf pointer, which is at offset 0 of struct usb_request 69 02 40 F9 ldr x9, [x19] // x10 is null, crash, appears to be attempt to read cdev->gadget->max_speed 4B 5D 40 B9 ldr w11, [x10, #0x5c] which seems to line up with ncm_do_notify() case NCM_NOTIFY_SPEED code fragment: event->wLength = cpu_to_le16(8); req->length = NCM_STATUS_BYTECOUNT; /* SPEED_CHANGE data is up/down speeds in bits/sec */ data = req->buf + sizeof *event; data[0] = cpu_to_le32(ncm_bitrate(cdev->gadget)); My analysis of registers and NULL ptr deref crash offset (Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000000000005c) heavily suggests that the crash is due to 'cdev->gadget' being NULL when executing: data[0] = cpu_to_le32(ncm_bitrate(cdev->gadget)); which calls: ncm_bitrate(NULL) which then calls: gadget_is_superspeed(NULL) which reads ((struct usb_gadget *)NULL)->max_speed and hits a panic. AFAICT, if I'm counting right, the offset of max_speed is indeed 0x5C. (remember there's a GKI KABI reservation of 16 bytes in struct work_struct) It's not at all clear to me how this is all supposed to work... but returning 0 seems much better than panic-ing...


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Severity

Severity Score
CVSS Version 2.x 0
CVSS Version 3.x MEDIUM 5.5

Status

OS name Project name Version Score Severity Status Errata Last updated

Statement

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU kernel 5.14.0 5.5 MEDIUM Ignored 2024-09-16 12:23:33
CentOS 6 ELS kernel 2.6.32 5.5 MEDIUM Ignored 2024-09-16 12:23:33
CentOS 8.4 ELS kernel 4.18.0 5.5 MEDIUM Ignored 2024-09-16 12:23:33
CentOS 8.5 ELS kernel 4.18.0 5.5 MEDIUM Ignored 2024-09-16 12:23:33
CloudLinux 6 ELS kernel 2.6.32 5.5 MEDIUM Ignored 2024-09-16 12:23:33
Oracle Linux 6 ELS kernel 2.6.32 5.5 MEDIUM Ignored 2024-09-16 12:23:33
Ubuntu 16.04 ELS linux-hwe 4.15.0 5.5 MEDIUM Ignored 2024-09-16 12:24:49
Ubuntu 16.04 ELS linux 4.4.0 5.5 MEDIUM Ignored 2024-09-16 12:24:36
Ubuntu 18.04 ELS linux 4.15.0 5.5 MEDIUM Ignored 2024-09-16 12:24:36