NACK: [SRU][Jammy][Focal][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2023-4134

Roxana Nicolescu roxana.nicolescu at canonical.com
Thu Jan 18 16:37:06 UTC 2024


On 09/01/2024 15:16, Bethany Jamison wrote:
> [Impact]
>
> It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Cypress touchscreen
> driver in the Linux kernel during device removal, leading to a use-after-
> free vulnerability. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause
> a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
>
> [Fix]
>
> Clean cherry-pick.
>
> [Test Case]
>
> Compile and boot test.
>
> [Where problems could occur]
>
> Issues could happen when a Cypress touchscreen device or driver is removed.
>
> Duoming Zhou (1):
>    Input: cyttsp4_core - change del_timer_sync() to timer_shutdown_sync()
>
>   drivers/input/touchscreen/cyttsp4_core.c | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
It breaks the build. Another commit is required. A v2 will be sent shortly.



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