Bug 2344683 (CVE-2025-21689)

Summary: CVE-2025-21689 kernel: USB: serial: quatech2: fix null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb()
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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A flaw was found in the quatech2 module in the Linux kernel. An incorrect check for invalid port numbers can cause a NULL pointer dereference and result in a denial of service.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-10 17:01:15 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

USB: serial: quatech2: fix null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb()

This patch addresses a null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb() due to
an incorrect bounds check in the following:

       if (newport > serial->num_ports) {
               dev_err(&port->dev,
                       "%s - port change to invalid port: %i\n",
                       __func__, newport);
               break;
       }

The condition doesn't account for the valid range of the serial->port
buffer, which is from 0 to serial->num_ports - 1. When newport is equal
to serial->num_ports, the assignment of "port" in the
following code is out-of-bounds and NULL:

       serial_priv->current_port = newport;
       port = serial->port[serial_priv->current_port];

The fix checks if newport is greater than or equal to serial->num_ports
indicating it is out-of-bounds.

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:39:07 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966