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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Nov 2017
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 1
Type: Bug-Security



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CVE-2017-16643 CrOS: Vulnerability reported in Linux kernel

Project Member Reported by vomit.go...@appspot.gserviceaccount.com, Nov 29 2017

Issue description

VOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel. 

Advisory: CVE-2017-16643
  Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2017-16643
  CVSS severity score: 7.2/10.0
  Description:

The parse_hid_report_descriptor function in drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device.



This bug was filed by http://go/vomit
Please contact us at vomit-team@google.com if you need any assistance.

 

Comment 1 by groeck@chromium.org, Nov 29 2017

Cc: wonderfly@chromium.org dtor@chromium.org
Labels: Security_Severity-High Security_Impact-None Pri-1
Owner: groeck@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
Upstream commit a50829479f58 ("Input: gtco - fix potential out-of-bound access").

Already fixed in chromeos-4.4 and chromeos-4.14. Not enabled in any ChromeOS releases. WontFix for older kernels.

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