VOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel.
Advisory: CVE-2017-17558
Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2017-17558
CVSS severity score: 7.2/10.0
Description:
The usb_destroy_configuration function in drivers/usb/core/config.c in the USB core subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.14.5 does not consider the maximum number of configurations and interfaces before attempting to release resources, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write access) 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
, Jan 9 2018Mergedinto: 794504
Owner: groeck@chromium.org
Status: Duplicate (was: Untriaged)
Upstream commit 48a4ff1c7bb5 ("USB: core: prevent malicious bNumInterfaces overflow"). Already fixed.