CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-68369
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-08-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: printer: fix infinite loop in printer_read()
printer_read() uses the same variable for the requested copy size and
the number of bytes actually copied to user space. copy_to_user()
returns the number of bytes not copied, so when it fails to copy
anything, the computed copied length becomes zero.
In that case len, buf, current_rx_bytes and current_rx_buf are left
unchanged. If RX data is available and the user buffer remains
unwritable, the read loop can repeat indefinitely.
Track the copied length separately and return -EFAULT, or the number of
bytes already copied, if an iteration makes no progress.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3081b0e187065c3b9577e393ad664b12854aeaf3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f81197364b57e5318620c75f3bd63f405f60552 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cde0b38cc0cb8b7dc17295801015148de37d1d2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/994afccfdcceb73be33f69a8a8ea71e260c9eca5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2e819be6a5c7f34344926b4bd7e3dfca58cf48a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e03597ad9494b500344076589aeaa6c6d2d381d3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e225e2998e5a9b83c838dbbe4511fb0d63f88daf git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e41bbbbb1740ce4d7270ab1cdeca13892d6a8d2e git.kernel.org