National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2013-1774

Overview

The chase_port function in drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via an attempted /dev/ttyUSB read or write operation on a disconnected Edgeport USB serial converter.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1ee0a224bc9aad1de496c795f96bc6ba2c394811

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1ee0a224bc9aad1de496c795f96bc6ba2c394811

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916191

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916191

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20130227 Re: CVE request: Linux kernel: USB: io_ti: NULL pointer dereference

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/27/29

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.4

Hyperlink:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.4

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1ee0a224bc9aad1de496c795f96bc6ba2c394811

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1ee0a224bc9aad1de496c795f96bc6ba2c394811