Bug 2540536 (CVE-2026-97483)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-97483 kernel: usb: core: hcd: fix possible deadlock in rh control transfers | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. During error recovery or reset operations for USB storage devices connected to a root hub, the USB subsystem fails to respect memory allocation constraints during control transfers. A local user triggering device error recovery under memory pressure can cause recursive storage input/output (I/O) operations, leading to a kernel deadlock and a Denial of Service (DoS).
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: core: hcd: fix possible deadlock in rh control transfers >From within the SCSI error handler memory allocations must not trigger IO. Handling errors in UAS and the storage driver may involve resetting a device. The thread doing the reset itself relies on VM magic. However, that is insufficient, as resetting a device involves resuming it. Resumption as well as resetting involves conrol transfers to the parent of the device to be reset. That may be a root hub. Hence usbcore must heed the flags passed to usb_submit_urb() processing control transfers to root hubs. The problem exist since the storage driver has been merged.