CVE-2017-16531 (published 2017-11-04T01:29Z)

drivers/usb/core/config.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device, related to the USB_DT_INTERFACE_ASSOCIATION descriptor.

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 6.6, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-119
cwe_name: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
description: The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
extended_description: 
            Certain languages allow direct addressing of memory locations and do not automatically ensure that these locations are valid for the memory buffer that is being referenced. This can cause read or write operations to be performed on memory locations that may be associated with other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Greg Kroah-Hartman
author_date: 2017-09-19 15:07:17+02:00
msg: USB: fix out-of-bounds in usb_set_configuration

Andrey Konovalov reported a possible out-of-bounds problem for a USB interface
association descriptor.  He writes:
	It seems there's no proper size check of a USB_DT_INTERFACE_ASSOCIATION
	descriptor. It's only checked that the size is >= 2 in
	usb_parse_configuration(), so find_iad() might do out-of-bounds access
	to intf_assoc->bInterfaceCount.

And he's right, we don't check for crazy descriptors of this type very well, so
resolve this problem.  Yet another issue found by syzkaller...

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.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: config.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -643,15 +643,23 @@ static int usb_parse_configuration(struct usb_device *dev, int cfgidx,
 
 		} else if (header->bDescriptorType ==
 				USB_DT_INTERFACE_ASSOCIATION) {
+			struct usb_interface_assoc_descriptor *d;
+
+			d = (struct usb_interface_assoc_descriptor *)header;
+			if (d->bLength < USB_DT_INTERFACE_ASSOCIATION_SIZE) {
+				dev_warn(ddev,
+					 "config %d has an invalid interface association descriptor of length %d, skipping\n",
+					 cfgno, d->bLength);
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			if (iad_num == USB_MAXIADS) {
 				dev_warn(ddev, "found more Interface "
 					       "Association Descriptors "
 					       "than allocated for in "
 					       "configuration %d\n", cfgno);
 			} else {
-				config->intf_assoc[iad_num] =
-					(struct usb_interface_assoc_descriptor
-					*)header;
+				config->intf_assoc[iad_num] = d;
 				iad_num++;
 			}
 

programming_language: C
filename: ch9.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -780,6 +780,7 @@ struct usb_interface_assoc_descriptor {
 	__u8  iFunction;
 } __attribute__ ((packed));
 
+#define USB_DT_INTERFACE_ASSOCIATION_SIZE	8
 
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 

programming_language: C