CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-36896

9.1 CRITICAL Published 2024-05-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-05-30
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: core: Fix access violation during port device removal Testing with KASAN and syzkaller revealed a bug in port.c:disable_store(): usb_hub_to_struct_hub() can return NULL if the hub that the port belongs to is concurrently removed, but the function does not check for this possibility before dereferencing the returned value. It turns out that the first dereference is unnecessary, since hub->intfdev is the parent of the port device, so it can be changed easily. Adding a check for hub == NULL prevents further problems. The same bug exists in the disable_show() routine, and it can be fixed the same way.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0 < 6.1.91) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.31) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.8.10) • linux linux kernel 6.9

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References