CVE-2025-21704
Published: Feb 22, 2025
Modified: May 12, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: cdc-acm: Check control transfer buffer size before access If the first fragment is shorter than struct usb_cdc_notification, we can't calculate an expected_size. Log an error and discard the notification instead of reading lengths from memory outside the received data, which can lead to memory corruption when the expected_size decreases between fragments, causing `expected_size - acm->nb_index` to wrap. This issue has been present since the beginning of git history; however, it only leads to memory corruption since commit ea2583529cd1 ("cdc-acm: reassemble fragmented notifications"). A mitigating factor is that acm_ctrl_irq() can only execute after userspace has opened /dev/ttyACM*; but if ModemManager is running, ModemManager will do that automatically depending on the USB device's vendor/product IDs and its other interfaces.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < a4e1ae5c0533964170197e4fb4f33bc8c1db5cd2affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 90dd2f1b7342b9a671a5ea4160f408037b92b118affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 871619c2b78fdfe05afb4e8ba548678687beb812affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 7828e9363ac4d23b02419bf2a45b9f1d9fb35646affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 6abb510251e75f875797d8983a830e6731fa281c+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.12unaffected 0 - < 2.6.12unaffected 5.4.291 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.235 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.179 - <= 5.15.*+5 more versions |
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