CVE-2015-5257 (published 2015-11-16T11:59Z)

drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2.4 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device.  NOTE: this ID was incorrectly used for an Apache Cordova issue that has the correct ID of CVE-2015-8320.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: NVD-CWE-Other
cwe_name: Other
description: NVD is only using a subset of CWE for mapping instead of the entire CWE, and the weakness type is not covered by that subset.
extended_description: Insufficient Information

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Johan Hovold
author_date: 2015-09-23 11:41:42-07:00
msg: USB: whiteheat: fix potential null-deref at probe

Fix potential null-pointer dereference at probe by making sure that the
required endpoints are present.

The whiteheat driver assumes there are at least five pairs of bulk
endpoints, of which the final pair is used for the "command port". An
attempt to bind to an interface with fewer bulk endpoints would
currently lead to an oops.

Fixes CVE-2015-5257.

Reported-by: Moein Ghasemzadeh <moein@istuary.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: whiteheat.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ static int  whiteheat_firmware_download(struct usb_serial *serial,
 static int  whiteheat_firmware_attach(struct usb_serial *serial);
 
 /* function prototypes for the Connect Tech WhiteHEAT serial converter */
+static int whiteheat_probe(struct usb_serial *serial,
+				const struct usb_device_id *id);
 static int  whiteheat_attach(struct usb_serial *serial);
 static void whiteheat_release(struct usb_serial *serial);
 static int  whiteheat_port_probe(struct usb_serial_port *port);
@@ -116,6 +118,7 @@ static struct usb_serial_driver whiteheat_device = {
 	.description =		"Connect Tech - WhiteHEAT",
 	.id_table =		id_table_std,
 	.num_ports =		4,
+	.probe =		whiteheat_probe,
 	.attach =		whiteheat_attach,
 	.release =		whiteheat_release,
 	.port_probe =		whiteheat_port_probe,
@@ -217,6 +220,34 @@ static int whiteheat_firmware_attach(struct usb_serial *serial)
 /*****************************************************************************
  * Connect Tech's White Heat serial driver functions
  *****************************************************************************/
+
+static int whiteheat_probe(struct usb_serial *serial,
+				const struct usb_device_id *id)
+{
+	struct usb_host_interface *iface_desc;
+	struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *endpoint;
+	size_t num_bulk_in = 0;
+	size_t num_bulk_out = 0;
+	size_t min_num_bulk;
+	unsigned int i;
+
+	iface_desc = serial->interface->cur_altsetting;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < iface_desc->desc.bNumEndpoints; i++) {
+		endpoint = &iface_desc->endpoint[i].desc;
+		if (usb_endpoint_is_bulk_in(endpoint))
+			++num_bulk_in;
+		if (usb_endpoint_is_bulk_out(endpoint))
+			++num_bulk_out;
+	}
+
+	min_num_bulk = COMMAND_PORT + 1;
+	if (num_bulk_in < min_num_bulk || num_bulk_out < min_num_bulk)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int whiteheat_attach(struct usb_serial *serial)
 {
 	struct usb_serial_port *command_port;

programming_language: C