GHSA-VJQ5-PFRC-9VJR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-07-16 12:30 – Updated: 2025-03-06 15:34
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Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: usb: ax88179_178a: Fix out-of-bounds accesses in RX fixup

ax88179_rx_fixup() contains several out-of-bounds accesses that can be triggered by a malicious (or defective) USB device, in particular:

  • The metadata array (hdr_off..hdr_off+2*pkt_cnt) can be out of bounds, causing OOB reads and (on big-endian systems) OOB endianness flips.
  • A packet can overlap the metadata array, causing a later OOB endianness flip to corrupt data used by a cloned SKB that has already been handed off into the network stack.
  • A packet SKB can be constructed whose tail is far beyond its end, causing out-of-bounds heap data to be considered part of the SKB's data.

I have tested that this can be used by a malicious USB device to send a bogus ICMPv6 Echo Request and receive an ICMPv6 Echo Reply in response that contains random kernel heap data. It's probably also possible to get OOB writes from this on a little-endian system somehow - maybe by triggering skb_cow() via IP options processing -, but I haven't tested that.

Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-48805"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-125"
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    "nvd_published_at": "2024-07-16T12:15:04Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
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  "id": "GHSA-vjq5-pfrc-9vjr",
  "modified": "2025-03-06T15:34:37Z",
  "published": "2024-07-16T12:30:40Z",
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