Vulnerability CVE-2024-27059
Published: 2024-05-01

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

USB: usb-storage: Prevent divide-by-0 error in isd200_ata_command

The isd200 sub-driver in usb-storage uses the HEADS and SECTORS values
in the ATA ID information to calculate cylinder and head values when
creating a CDB for READ or WRITE commands. The calculation involves
division and modulus operations, which will cause a crash if either of
these values is 0. While this never happens with a genuine device, it
could happen with a flawed or subversive emulation, as reported by the
syzbot fuzzer.

Protect against this possibility by refusing to bind to the device if
either the ATA_ID_HEADS or ATA_ID_SECTORS value in the device's ID
information is 0. This requires isd200_Initialization() to return a
negative error code when initialization fails; currently it always
returns 0 (even when there is an error).

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9968c701cba7eda42e5f0052b040349d6222ae34
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb7b01ca778170654e1c76950024270ba74b121f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/284fb1003d5da111019b9e0bf99b084fd71ac133
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c1f36d92c0a8799569055012665d2bb066fb964
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f42ba916689f5c7b1642092266d2f53cf527aaaa
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/871fd7b10b56d280990b7e754f43d888382ca325
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a67d4ab9e730361d183086dfb0ddd8c61f01636
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/014bcf41d946b36a8f0b8e9b5d9529efbb822f49
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