[PATCH] usb: usbtest: fix NULL pointer dereference

Colin King colin.king at canonical.com
Fri Jul 20 12:38:42 UTC 2018


From: Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>

CVE-2017-16532

If the usbtest driver encounters a device with an IN bulk endpoint but
no OUT bulk endpoint, it will try to dereference a NULL pointer
(out->desc.bEndpointAddress).  The problem can be solved by adding a
missing test.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>
Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi at linux.intel.com>
(upstream cherry pick of commit 7c80f9e4a588f1925b07134bb2e3689335f6c6d8)
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c b/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c
index 113e38b..b3fc602 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c
@@ -202,12 +202,13 @@ get_endpoints(struct usbtest_dev *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
 			return tmp;
 	}
 
-	if (in) {
+	if (in)
 		dev->in_pipe = usb_rcvbulkpipe(udev,
 			in->desc.bEndpointAddress & USB_ENDPOINT_NUMBER_MASK);
+	if (out)
 		dev->out_pipe = usb_sndbulkpipe(udev,
 			out->desc.bEndpointAddress & USB_ENDPOINT_NUMBER_MASK);
-	}
+
 	if (iso_in) {
 		dev->iso_in = &iso_in->desc;
 		dev->in_iso_pipe = usb_rcvisocpipe(udev,
-- 
2.7.4





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