Vulnerability CVE-2024-38565
Published: 2024-06-19

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

wifi: ar5523: enable proper endpoint verification

Syzkaller reports [1] hitting a warning about an endpoint in use
not having an expected type to it.

Fix the issue by checking for the existence of all proper
endpoints with their according types intact.

Sadly, this patch has not been tested on real hardware.

[1] Syzkaller report:
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usb 1-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3643 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504 usb_submit_urb+0xed6/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ar5523_cmd+0x41b/0x780 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c:275
ar5523_cmd_read drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c:302 [inline]
ar5523_host_available drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c:1376 [inline]
ar5523_probe+0x14b0/0x1d10 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c:1655
usb_probe_interface+0x30f/0x7f0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:560 [inline]
really_probe+0x249/0xb90 drivers/base/dd.c:639
__driver_probe_device+0x1df/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:778
driver_probe_device+0x4c/0x1a0 drivers/base/dd.c:808
__device_attach_driver+0x1d4/0x2e0 drivers/base/dd.c:936
bus_for_each_drv+0x163/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:427
__device_attach+0x1e4/0x530 drivers/base/dd.c:1008
bus_probe_device+0x1e8/0x2a0 drivers/base/bus.c:487
device_add+0xbd9/0x1e90 drivers/base/core.c:3517
usb_set_configuration+0x101d/0x1900 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2170
usb_generic_driver_probe+0xbe/0x100 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
usb_probe_device+0xd8/0x2c0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:560 [inline]
really_probe+0x249/0xb90 drivers/base/dd.c:639
__driver_probe_device+0x1df/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:778
driver_probe_device+0x4c/0x1a0 drivers/base/dd.c:808
__device_attach_driver+0x1d4/0x2e0 drivers/base/dd.c:936
bus_for_each_drv+0x163/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:427
__device_attach+0x1e4/0x530 drivers/base/dd.c:1008
bus_probe_device+0x1e8/0x2a0 drivers/base/bus.c:487
device_add+0xbd9/0x1e90 drivers/base/core.c:3517
usb_new_device.cold+0x685/0x10ad drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2573
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5353 [inline]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5497 [inline]
port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5653 [inline]
hub_event+0x26cb/0x45d0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5735
process_one_work+0x9bf/0x1710 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0x669/0x1090 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x2e8/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306
</TASK>

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79ddf5f2020fd593d50f1363bb5131283d74f78f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68a5a00c5d38978a3f8460c6f182f7beec8688ff
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee25389df80138907bc9dcdf4a2be2067cde9a81
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4c24de37a6bb383394a6fef2b85a6db41d426f5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34f7ebff1b9699e0b89fa58b693bc098c2f5ec72
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b33a81e4ecfb022b028cae37d1c1ce28ac1b359d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/beeed260b92af158592f5e8d2dab65dae45c6f70
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bbf76c9bb2c58375e183074e44f9712483f0603
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e120b6388d7d88635d67dcae6483f39c37111850
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