A flaw was found in in the Linux kernel's USB device management code which could cause a crash when a device which required gtco module. The kernel would panic causing null pointer dereference attempting to access invalid USB device descriptors. Product bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283385 Intended to be public via: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/86 Public via: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1283385 Proposed upstream patch (linux-usb@ and linux-input@ lists): http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg137950.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg43786.html Upstream patch: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=162f98dea487206d9ab79fc12ed64700667a894d
Acknowledgments: Name: Ralf Spenneberg (OpenSource Security)
Statement: This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as the code with the flaw is not present in the products listed. This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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/.
Created attachment 1139603 [details] gtco-null-deref.patch
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