CVE-2021-47475
Published: May 22, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: comedi: vmk80xx: fix transfer-buffer overflows The driver uses endpoint-sized USB transfer buffers but up until recently had no sanity checks on the sizes. Commit e1f13c879a7c ("staging: comedi: check validity of wMaxPacketSize of usb endpoints found") inadvertently fixed NULL-pointer dereferences when accessing the transfer buffers in case a malicious device has a zero wMaxPacketSize. Make sure to allocate buffers large enough to handle also the other accesses that are done without a size check (e.g. byte 18 in vmk80xx_cnt_insn_read() for the VMK8061_MODEL) to avoid writing beyond the buffers, for example, when doing descriptor fuzzing. The original driver was for a low-speed device with 8-byte buffers. Support was later added for a device that uses bulk transfers and is presumably a full-speed device with a maximum 64-byte wMaxPacketSize.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb - < 5229159f1d052821007aff1a1beb7873eacf1a9faffected 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb - < ec85bcff4ed09260243d8f39faba99e1041718baaffected 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb - < 40d2a7e278e2e7c0a5fd7e997e7eb63945bf93f7affected 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb - < 7a2021b896de1ad559d33b5c5cdd20b982242088affected 985cafccbf9b7f862aa1c5ee566801e18b5161fb - < 199acd8c110e3ae62833c24f632b0bb1c9f012a9+4 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.31unaffected 0 - < 2.6.31unaffected 4.4.292 - <= 4.4.*unaffected 4.9.290 - <= 4.9.*unaffected 4.14.255 - <= 4.14.*+6 more versions |
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