Bug 1000494 (CVE-2013-2896)

Summary:	CVE-2013-2896 Kernel: HID: ntrig: NULL pointer dereference
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Prasad Pandit <ppandit>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	agordeev, anton, aquini, bhu, dhoward, esammons, fhrbata, iboverma, jkacur, jross, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, lwang, matt, mcressma, pmatouse, security-response-team, vkrizan, williams
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2014-06-10 08:31:49 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1000501, 1000503, 1000505, 1002594
Bug Blocks:	1000487

Description Prasad Pandit 2013-08-23 14:21:22 UTC

Linux kernel built with the Human Interface Device bus(CONFIG_HID) along with
the N-Trig touch screen driver(CONFIG_HID_NTRIG) support is vulnerable to a
NULL pointer dereference flaw. It could occur when an HID device sends
malicious output report to the ntrig kernel driver.

A local user with physical access to the system could use this flaw to crash
the kernel resulting in DoS.

Comment 1 Prasad Pandit 2013-08-23 14:25:52 UTC

Statement:

This issue does not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

This issue affects the version of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 may address this issue.

Note: user would need physical access to the system to exploit this issue.

Comment 5 Prasad Pandit 2013-08-29 13:50:43 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1002594]

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-09-13 01:05:08 UTC

kernel-3.10.11-200.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-09-16 00:27:02 UTC

kernel-3.10.11-100.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 John Kacur 2013-09-30 21:03:17 UTC

commit 875b4e3763dbc941f15143dd1a18d10bb0be303b upstream

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2013-10-31 16:28:31 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-6 v.2

Via RHSA-2013:1490 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1490.html