CVE-2018-20169 (published 2018-12-17T07:29Z)

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.19.9. The USB subsystem mishandles size checks during the reading of an extra descriptor, related to __usb_get_extra_descriptor in drivers/usb/core/usb.c.

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 6.8, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-400
cwe_name: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
description: The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
extended_description: 
            Limited resources include memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. If an attacker can trigger the allocation of these limited resources, but the number or size of the resources is not controlled, then the attacker could cause a denial of service that consumes all available resources. This would prevent valid users from accessing the product, and it could potentially have an impact on the surrounding environment. For example, a memory exhaustion attack against an application could slow down the application as well as its host operating system.
            There are at least three distinct scenarios which can commonly lead to resource exhaustion:
               
                  Lack of throttling for the number of allocated resources
                  Losing all references to a resource before reaching the shutdown stage
                  Not closing/returning a resource after processing
               
            Resource exhaustion problems are often result due to an incorrect implementation of the following situations:
               
                  Error conditions and other exceptional circumstances.
                  Confusion over which part of the program is responsible for releasing the resource.
               
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Mathias Payer
author_date: 2018-12-05 21:19:59+01:00
msg: USB: check usb_get_extra_descriptor for proper size

When reading an extra descriptor, we need to properly check the minimum
and maximum size allowed, to prevent from invalid data being sent by a
device.

Reported-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mathias Payer <mathias.payer@nebelwelt.net>
Co-developed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Payer <mathias.payer@nebelwelt.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable <stable@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: hub.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -2251,7 +2251,7 @@ static int usb_enumerate_device_otg(struct usb_device *udev)
 		/* descriptor may appear anywhere in config */
 		err = __usb_get_extra_descriptor(udev->rawdescriptors[0],
 				le16_to_cpu(udev->config[0].desc.wTotalLength),
-				USB_DT_OTG, (void **) &desc);
+				USB_DT_OTG, (void **) &desc, sizeof(*desc));
 		if (err || !(desc->bmAttributes & USB_OTG_HNP))
 			return 0;
 

programming_language: C
filename: usb.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -832,14 +832,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_get_current_frame_number);
  */
 
 int __usb_get_extra_descriptor(char *buffer, unsigned size,
-			       unsigned char type, void **ptr)
+			       unsigned char type, void **ptr, size_t minsize)
 {
 	struct usb_descriptor_header *header;
 
 	while (size >= sizeof(struct usb_descriptor_header)) {
 		header = (struct usb_descriptor_header *)buffer;
 
-		if (header->bLength < 2) {
+		if (header->bLength < 2 || header->bLength > size) {
 			printk(KERN_ERR
 				"%s: bogus descriptor, type %d length %d\n",
 				usbcore_name,
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ int __usb_get_extra_descriptor(char *buffer, unsigned size,
 			return -1;
 		}
 
-		if (header->bDescriptorType == type) {
+		if (header->bDescriptorType == type && header->bLength >= minsize) {
 			*ptr = header;
 			return 0;
 		}

programming_language: C
filename: hwa-hc.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ static int hwahc_security_create(struct hwahc *hwahc)
 	top = itr + itr_size;
 	result = __usb_get_extra_descriptor(usb_dev->rawdescriptors[index],
 			le16_to_cpu(usb_dev->actconfig->desc.wTotalLength),
-			USB_DT_SECURITY, (void **) &secd);
+			USB_DT_SECURITY, (void **) &secd, sizeof(*secd));
 	if (result == -1) {
 		dev_warn(dev, "BUG? WUSB host has no security descriptors\n");
 		return 0;

programming_language: C
filename: usb.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -407,11 +407,11 @@ struct usb_host_bos {
 };
 
 int __usb_get_extra_descriptor(char *buffer, unsigned size,
-	unsigned char type, void **ptr);
+	unsigned char type, void **ptr, size_t min);
 #define usb_get_extra_descriptor(ifpoint, type, ptr) \
 				__usb_get_extra_descriptor((ifpoint)->extra, \
 				(ifpoint)->extralen, \
-				type, (void **)ptr)
+				type, (void **)ptr, sizeof(**(ptr)))
 
 /* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */
 

programming_language: C