From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:11:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1458137469.6570.23.camel@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1603161007500.2250-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 10:08 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2016, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>
> > Attacks that trick drivers into passing a NULL pointer
> > to usb_driver_claim_interface() using forged descriptors are
> > known. This thwarts them by sanity checking.
>
> I'm curious -- how do these attacks carry out their trickery?
They are using a programmable gadget.
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/90
HTH
Oliver
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-16 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-16 12:26 [PATCH] usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking Oliver Neukum
2016-03-16 14:08 ` Alan Stern
2016-03-16 14:11 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
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