APPLIED: [SRU][OEM-5.17][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2022-3903

Manuel Diewald manuel.diewald at canonical.com
Tue Apr 4 07:50:31 UTC 2023


On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 04:36:31PM -0300, Magali Lemes wrote:
> [Impact]
> An incorrect read request flaw was found in the Infrared Transceiver USB
> driver in the Linux kernel. This issue occurs when a user attaches a
> malicious USB device. A local user could use this flaw to starve the
> resources, causing denial of service or potentially crashing the system.
> 
> [Backport]
> Clean cherry-pick.
> 
> [Test]
> Compiled.
> 
> [Regression potential]
> We expect minimal regression, since we're only updating the usb_control_msg()
> calls with usb_control_msg_recv() and usb_control_msg_send(). Also it would
> impact just users of the Windows Media Center Edition eHome Infrared
> Transceiver.
> 
> Alan Stern (1):
>   media: mceusb: Use new usb_control_msg_*() routines
> 
>  drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c | 35 ++++++++++++++---------------------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
> 
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Applied to jammy:linux-oem-5.17. Thank you!



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