Vulnerability CVE-2022-3577
Published: 2022-10-20

Description:
An out-of-bounds memory write flaw was found in the Linux kernel??s Kid-friendly Wired Controller driver. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. It is in bigben_probe of drivers/hid/hid-bigbenff.c. The reason is incorrect assumption - bigben devices all have inputs. However, malicious devices can break this assumption, leaking to out-of-bound write.

Type:

CWE-401

 (Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference ('Memory Leak'))

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=945a9a8e448b65bec055d37eba58f711b39f66f0
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fc4ef9d5724973193bfa5ebed181dba6de3a56db
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git/commit/?h=char-misc-next&id=9d64d2405f7d30d49818f6682acd0392348f0fdb
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