Bug 1745528 (CVE-2019-15217)

Summary:	CVE-2019-15217 kernel: null pointer dereference in drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c driver
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, airlied, allarkin, bhu, blc, brdeoliv, bskeggs, dhoward, dvlasenk, esammons, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jeremy, jforbes, jglisse, jlelli, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jross, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lgoncalv, linville, masami256, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, steved, williams
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. The Zr364xx USB device driver is susceptible to malicious USB devices. An attacker able to add a specific USB device could cause a crash leading to a denial of service.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2020-09-29 21:58:22 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1745529, 1795596, 1795597, 1795598, 1795599, 1795600, 1795601
Bug Blocks:	1745539

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-08-26 10:26:25 UTC

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. There is a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the drivers/media/usb/zr364xx/zr364xx.c driver.

Reference:
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.2.3
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5d2e73a5f80a5b5aff3caf1ec6d39b5b3f54b26e
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=9c0c178c24d828a7378f483309001329750aad64

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-08-26 10:26:42 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1745529]

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2019-08-26 13:14:42 UTC

This was fixed for Fedora with the 5.1.20 stable update.

Comment 3 Alex 2020-01-28 12:29:06 UTC

Mitigation:

To mitigate this issue, prevent module zr364xx from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 18:57:38 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:4062 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4062

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 20:51:07 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:4060 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4060

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-09-29 21:58:22 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-15217