Vulnerability CVE-2013-2058
Published: 2013-11-04

Description:
The host_start function in drivers/usb/chipidea/host.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.4 does not properly support a certain non-streaming option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by sending a large amount of network traffic through a USB/Ethernet adapter.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Linux kernel chipidea allow disabling streaming in host mode
P J P
06.05.2013

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.7/10
6.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 References:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/929473ea05db455ad88cdc081f2adc556b8dc48f
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959210
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/05/2
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=929473ea05db455ad88cdc081f2adc556b8dc48f
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.4
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