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CVE-2013-2058

Published: Nov 4, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The host_start function in drivers/usb/chipidea/host.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.4 does not properly support a certain non-streaming option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by sending a large amount of network traffic through a USB/Ethernet adapter.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/929473ea05db455ad88cdc081f2adc556b8dc48f

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959210

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=929473ea05db455ad88cdc081f2adc556b8dc48f

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[oss-security] 20130505 Re: CVE request: Linux kernel: chipidea: allow disabling streaming in host mode

mailing-list

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.4

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