vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2025-21776): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Added
May 20, 2025
Modified
Jun 3, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

USB: hub: Ignore non-compliant devices with too many configs or interfaces

Robert Morris created a test program which can cause
usb_hub_to_struct_hub() to dereference a NULL or inappropriate
pointer:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xcccccccccccccccc: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PTI
CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 117 Comm: kworker/7:1 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-00017-gf44d154d6e3d #14
Hardware name: FreeBSD BHYVE/BHYVE, BIOS 14.0 10/17/2021
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
RIP: 0010:usb_hub_adjust_deviceremovable+0x78/0x110
...
Call Trace:

? die_addr+0x31/0x80
? exc_general_protection+0x1b4/0x3c0
? asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30
? usb_hub_adjust_deviceremovable+0x78/0x110
hub_probe+0x7c7/0xab0
usb_probe_interface+0x14b/0x350
really_probe+0xd0/0x2d0
? __pfx___device_attach_driver+0x10/0x10
__driver_probe_device+0x6e/0x110
driver_probe_device+0x1a/0x90
__device_attach_driver+0x7e/0xc0
bus_for_each_drv+0x7f/0xd0
__device_attach+0xaa/0x1a0
bus_probe_device+0x8b/0xa0
device_add+0x62e/0x810
usb_set_configuration+0x65d/0x990
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x4b/0x70
usb_probe_device+0x36/0xd0

The cause of this error is that the device has two interfaces, and the
hub driver binds to interface 1 instead of interface 0, which is where
usb_hub_to_struct_hub() looks.

We can prevent the problem from occurring by refusing to accept hub
devices that violate the USB spec by having more than one
configuration or interface.

Solution(s)

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