Vulnerability CVE-2023-52742
Published: 2024-05-21

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

net: USB: Fix wrong-direction WARNING in plusb.c

The syzbot fuzzer detected a bug in the plusb network driver: A
zero-length control-OUT transfer was treated as a read instead of a
write. In modern kernels this error provokes a WARNING:

usb 1-1: BOGUS control dir, pipe 80000280 doesn't match bRequestType c0
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4645 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411
usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 4645 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted
6.2.0-rc6-syzkaller-00050-g9f266ccaa2f5 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google
01/12/2023
RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
usb_start_wait_urb+0x101/0x4b0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:58
usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:102 [inline]
usb_control_msg+0x320/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:153
__usbnet_read_cmd+0xb9/0x390 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:2010
usbnet_read_cmd+0x96/0xf0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:2068
pl_vendor_req drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:60 [inline]
pl_set_QuickLink_features drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:75 [inline]
pl_reset+0x2f/0xf0 drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:85
usbnet_open+0xcc/0x5d0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:889
__dev_open+0x297/0x4d0 net/core/dev.c:1417
__dev_change_flags+0x587/0x750 net/core/dev.c:8530
dev_change_flags+0x97/0x170 net/core/dev.c:8602
devinet_ioctl+0x15a2/0x1d70 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1147
inet_ioctl+0x33f/0x380 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:979
sock_do_ioctl+0xcc/0x230 net/socket.c:1169
sock_ioctl+0x1f8/0x680 net/socket.c:1286
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x197/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:856
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The fix is to call usbnet_write_cmd() instead of usbnet_read_cmd() and
remove the USB_DIR_IN flag.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0ad46ef772438c0596df370450d8bdc8a12dbfb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f69307f625904feed189008381fd83bd1a35b63
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43379fcacea2dcee35d02efc9c8fe97807a503c9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1be271c52bf3554edcb8d124d1f8c7f777ee5727
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25141fb4119112f4ebf8f00cf52014abbc8020b1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d2cf3fae701646061e295815bb7588d2f3671cc
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/811d581194f7412eda97acc03d17fc77824b561f
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