CVE-2024-35825

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 4.14.328-4.15 - Denial of Service via Zero Block Length Packet Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: ncm: Fix handling of zero block length packets While connecting to a Linux host with CDC_NCM_NTB_DEF_SIZE_TX set to 65536, it has been observed that we receive short packets, which come at interval of 5-10 seconds sometimes and have block length zero but still contain 1-2 valid datagrams present. According to the NCM spec: "If wBlockLength = 0x0000, the block is terminated by a short packet. In this case, the USB transfer must still be shorter than dwNtbInMaxSize or dwNtbOutMaxSize. If exactly dwNtbInMaxSize or dwNtbOutMaxSize bytes are sent, and the size is a multiple of wMaxPacketSize for the given pipe, then no ZLP shall be sent. wBlockLength= 0x0000 must be used with extreme care, because of the possibility that the host and device may get out of sync, and because of test issues. wBlockLength = 0x0000 allows the sender to reduce latency by starting to send a very large NTB, and then shortening it when the sender discovers that there’s not sufficient data to justify sending a large NTB" However, there is a potential issue with the current implementation, as it checks for the occurrence of multiple NTBs in a single giveback by verifying if the leftover bytes to be processed is zero or not. If the block length reads zero, we would process the same NTB infintely because the leftover bytes is never zero and it leads to a crash. Fix this by bailing out if block length reads zero.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 7.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (31)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
Linux/Linux < 6.6
Linux/Linux 17c653d4913bbc50d284aa96cf12bfc63e41ee5c - ef846cdbd100f7f9dc045e8bcd7fe4b3a3713c03
Linux/Linux 4.14.328 - 4.15
Linux/Linux 4.19.297 - 4.19.312
Linux/Linux 4.19.312 - 4.19.*
Linux/Linux 427694cfaafa565a3db5c5ea71df6bc095dca92f - 6b2c73111a252263807b7598682663dc33aa4b4c
Linux/Linux 427694cfaafa565a3db5c5ea71df6bc095dca92f - a0f77b5d6067285b8eca0ee3bd1e448a6258026f
Linux/Linux 427694cfaafa565a3db5c5ea71df6bc095dca92f - f90ce1e04cbcc76639d6cba0fdbd820cd80b3c70
Linux/Linux 49fbc18378ae72a47feabee97fdb86f3cea09765 - 7664ee8bd80309b90d53488b619764f0a057f2b7
... and 21 more
Published May 17, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026