In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usbnet: gl620a: fix endpoint checking in genelink_bind()
Syzbot reports [1] a warning in usb_submit_urb() triggered by
inconsistencies between expected and actually present endpoints
in gl620a driver. Since genelink_bind() does not properly
verify whether specified eps are in fact provided by the device,
in this case, an artificially manufactured one, one may get a
mismatch.
Fix the issue by resorting to a usbnet utility function
usbnet_get_endpoints(), usually reserved for this very problem.
Check for endpoints and return early before proceeding further if
any are missing.
[1] Syzbot report:
usb 5-1: Manufacturer: syz
usb 5-1: SerialNumber: syz
usb 5-1: config 0 descriptor??
gl620a 5-1:0.23 usb0: register 'gl620a' at usb-dummy_hcd.0-1, ...
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usb 5-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1841 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:503 usb_submit_urb+0xe4b/0x1730 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:503
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1841 Comm: kworker/2:2 Not tainted 6.12.0-syzkaller-07834-g06afb0f36106 #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work
RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0xe4b/0x1730 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:503
...
Call Trace:
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usbnet_start_xmit+0x6be/0x2780 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1467
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5002 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5011 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3590 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9a/0x7b0 net/core/dev.c:3606
sch_direct_xmit+0x1ae/0xc30 net/sched/sch_generic.c:343
__dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:3827 [inline]
__dev_queue_xmit+0x13d4/0x43e0 net/core/dev.c:4400
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3168 [inline]
neigh_resolve_output net/core/neighbour.c:1514 [inline]
neigh_resolve_output+0x5bc/0x950 net/core/neighbour.c:1494
neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:539 [inline]
ip6_finish_output2+0xb1b/0x2070 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:141
__ip6_finish_output net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:215 [inline]
ip6_finish_output+0x3f9/0x1360 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:226
NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:303 [inline]
ip6_output+0x1f8/0x540 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247
dst_output include/net/dst.h:450 [inline]
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:308 [inline]
mld_sendpack+0x9f0/0x11d0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1819
mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2120 [inline]
mld_ifc_work+0x740/0xca0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2651
process_one_work+0x9c5/0x1ba0 kernel/workqueue.c:3229
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3310 [inline]
worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf00 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
kthread+0x2c1/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:389
ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
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Publication date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:57:00 +0000