GHSA-F3Q5-7M6P-4QXQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-06-25 09:31 – Updated: 2026-09-18 15:31
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

USB: serial: io_ti: fix heap overflow in get_manuf_info()

get_manuf_info() reads le16_to_cpu(rom_desc->Size) bytes from the device I2C EEPROM into a buffer allocated with kmalloc_obj(), which is sizeof(struct edge_ti_manuf_descriptor) = 10 bytes.

The Size field comes from the device and is only validated (in check_i2c_image()) to make sure the descriptor fits within TI_MAX_I2C_SIZE (16384 bytes), not against the destination buffer size. A malicious USB device can therefore set Size to any value up to 16377, causing a heap overflow of up to 16367 bytes when plugged into a host running this driver.

valid_csum() is called after read_rom() and also iterates buffer[0..Size-1], compounding the out-of-bounds access.

Fix by rejecting descriptors with unexpected length before calling read_rom().

[ johan: amend commit message; also check for short descriptors ]

Severity
7.0 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
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    "nvd_published_at": "2026-06-25T09:16:37Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
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  "modified": "2026-09-18T15:31:41Z",
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