CVE-2022-48805

HIGH

Linux Kernel < 4.9.303 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: ax88179_178a: Fix out-of-bounds accesses in RX fixup ax88179_rx_fixup() contains several out-of-bounds accesses that can be triggered by a malicious (or defective) USB device, in particular: - The metadata array (hdr_off..hdr_off+2*pkt_cnt) can be out of bounds, causing OOB reads and (on big-endian systems) OOB endianness flips. - A packet can overlap the metadata array, causing a later OOB endianness flip to corrupt data used by a cloned SKB that has already been handed off into the network stack. - A packet SKB can be constructed whose tail is far beyond its end, causing out-of-bounds heap data to be considered part of the SKB's data. I have tested that this can be used by a malicious USB device to send a bogus ICMPv6 Echo Request and receive an ICMPv6 Echo Reply in response that contains random kernel heap data. It's probably also possible to get OOB writes from this on a little-endian system somehow - maybe by triggering skb_cow() via IP options processing -, but I haven't tested that.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 3.9.0 - 4.9.303linux
linux/Kernel 4.10.0 - 4.14.268linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.231linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.180linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.24linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.10linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.101linux
linux/linux_kernel 5.17 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 3.9 - 4.9.303
Published Jul 16, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026