CVE-2014-3185 (published 2014-09-28T10:55Z)

Multiple buffer overflows in the command_port_read_callback function in drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c in the Whiteheat USB Serial Driver in the Linux kernel before 3.16.2 allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) via a crafted device that provides a large amount of (1) EHCI or (2) XHCI data associated with a bulk response.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 6.9 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

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: James Forshaw
author_date: 2014-08-23 14:39:48-07:00
msg: USB: whiteheat: Added bounds checking for bulk command response

This patch fixes a potential security issue in the whiteheat USB driver
which might allow a local attacker to cause kernel memory corrpution. This
is due to an unchecked memcpy into a fixed size buffer (of 64 bytes). On
EHCI and XHCI busses it's possible to craft responses greater than 64
bytes leading a buffer overflow.

Signed-off-by: James Forshaw <forshaw@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: whiteheat.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -514,6 +514,10 @@ static void command_port_read_callback(struct urb *urb)
 		dev_dbg(&urb->dev->dev, "%s - command_info is NULL, exiting.\n", __func__);
 		return;
 	}
+	if (!urb->actual_length) {
+		dev_dbg(&urb->dev->dev, "%s - empty response, exiting.\n", __func__);
+		return;
+	}
 	if (status) {
 		dev_dbg(&urb->dev->dev, "%s - nonzero urb status: %d\n", __func__, status);
 		if (status != -ENOENT)
@@ -534,7 +538,8 @@ static void command_port_read_callback(struct urb *urb)
 		/* These are unsolicited reports from the firmware, hence no
 		   waiting command to wakeup */
 		dev_dbg(&urb->dev->dev, "%s - event received\n", __func__);
-	} else if (data[0] == WHITEHEAT_GET_DTR_RTS) {
+	} else if ((data[0] == WHITEHEAT_GET_DTR_RTS) &&
+		(urb->actual_length - 1 <= sizeof(command_info->result_buffer))) {
 		memcpy(command_info->result_buffer, &data[1],
 						urb->actual_length - 1);
 		command_info->command_finished = WHITEHEAT_CMD_COMPLETE;

programming_language: C