In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

comedi: vmk80xx: fix transfer-buffer overflows

The driver uses endpoint-sized USB transfer buffers but up until
recently had no sanity checks on the sizes.

Commit e1f13c879a7c ("staging: comedi: check validity of wMaxPacketSize
of usb endpoints found") inadvertently fixed NULL-pointer dereferences
when accessing the transfer buffers in case a malicious device has a
zero wMaxPacketSize.

Make sure to allocate buffers large enough to handle also the other
accesses that are done without a size check (e.g. byte 18 in
vmk80xx_cnt_insn_read() for the VMK8061_MODEL) to avoid writing beyond
the buffers, for example, when doing descriptor fuzzing.

The original driver was for a low-speed device with 8-byte buffers.
Support was later added for a device that uses bulk transfers and is
presumably a full-speed device with a maximum 64-byte wMaxPacketSize.
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-04T07:11:43.980Z

Reserved: 2024-05-22T06:20:56.200Z

Link: CVE-2021-47475

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T05:39:59.742Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-22T09:15:09.370

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:36:15.267

Link: CVE-2021-47475

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-05-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-47475 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T22:44:50Z