CVE-2023-4010

CVSS 3.1 Score 4.6 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Jul 31, 2023
Updated: Nov 7, 2023
CWE ID 835

Summary

CVE-2023-4010 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the USB Host Controller Driver framework in the Linux kernel. The issue lies within the usb_giveback_urb function, which contains a logic loophole. Due to an inappropriate judgment condition in the goto statement, this function becomes unresponsive when processing a malformed descriptor file, leading to an endless loop and ultimately causing a denial of service.

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Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Linux Kernel

Affected Vendors

  • Red Hat
  • LINUX