Bug 2221039 (CVE-2023-37453)

Summary:	CVE-2023-37453 kernel: usb: out-of-bounds read in read_descriptors
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Rohit Keshri <rkeshri>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, allarkin, bhu, chwhite, crwood, dbohanno, ddepaula, debarbos, desnesn, dfreiber, dvlasenk, ezulian, ggasparb, hkrzesin, jarod, jburrell, jdenham, jfaracco, jferlan, jforbes, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, kernel-mgr, ldoskova, lgoncalv, lleshchi, lzampier, mcascell, nmurray, ptalbert, qzhao, rogbas, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, rysulliv, scweaver, steve.beattie, tglozar, tyberry, vkumar, vpolasek, walters, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ymankad
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	An out-of-bounds read issue was found in the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel. This flaw allows a malicious user to crash the system, resulting in a denial of service condition.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2023-08-08 01:04:04 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2221041, 2221042, 2229757, 2229758, 2229759
Bug Blocks:	2221040

Description Rohit Keshri 2023-07-07 05:58:26 UTC

An issue was discovered in the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel through 6.4.2. There is an out-of-bounds and crash in read_descriptors in drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c.

https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=18996170f8096c6174d0
https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000c0ffe505fe86c9ca@google.com/T/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000e56434059580f86e@google.com/T/

Comment 4 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2023-08-07 15:00:28 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2229757]

Comment 8 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-08-08 01:04:01 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-2023-37453

Comment 16 Justin M. Forbes 2023-09-25 16:37:48 UTC

This was fixed for Fedora with the 6.4.16 stable kernel updates.

Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 10:10:26 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:2394 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394