Bug 1316204 (CVE-2016-3138)

Summary:	CVE-2016-3138 kernel: Crash on invalid USB device descriptors (cdc_acm driver)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	agordeev, aquini, arm-mgr, bhu, dhoward, esammons, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jkacur, joelsmith, jonathan, jross, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, kstutsma, lgoncalv, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mguzik, nmurray, pholasek, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, slawomir, vdronov, williams, wmealing
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2016-03-18 10:22:40 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1283366, 1317010
Bug Blocks:	1317020

Description Adam Mariš 2016-03-09 16:52:39 UTC

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel handling when a buggy USB device is attached attempting to use the cdc_acm kernel module.  This flaw would cause the kernel to panic by a null pointer dereference.

Public via:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/54

CVE-ID request and assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/605

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/622

Upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8835ba4a39cf53f705417b3b3a94eb067673f2c9

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-03-09 16:52:42 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Ralf Spenneberg (OpenSource Security)

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-03-11 17:03:53 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1317010]

Comment 6 Vladis Dronov 2016-03-18 10:22:40 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and MRG-2. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-04-02 00:43:31 UTC

kernel-4.5.0-302.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-04-02 15:51:23 UTC

kernel-4.5.0-302.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2016-04-08 15:52:35 UTC

kernel-4.4.6-301.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2016-04-08 20:20:20 UTC

kernel-4.4.6-201.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.