🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52894
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: f_ncm: fix potential NULL ptr deref in ncm_bitrate() In Google internal bug 265639009 we've received an (as yet) unreproducible crash report from an aarch64 GKI 5.10.149-android13 running device. AFAICT the source code is at: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/refs/tags/ASB-2022-12-05_13-5.10 The call stack is: ncm_close() -> ncm_notify() -> ncm_do_notify() with the crash at: ncm_do_notify+0x98/0x270 Code: 79000d0b b9000a6c f940012a f9400269 (b9405d4b) Which I believe disassembles to (I don't know ARM assembly, but it looks sane enough to me...): // halfword (16-bit) store presumably to event->wLength (at offset 6 of struct usb_cdc_notification) 0B 0D 00 79 strh w11, [x8, #6] // word (32-bit) store presumably to req->Length (at offset 8 of struct usb_request) 6C 0A 00 B9 str w12, [x19, #8] // x10 (NULL) was read here from offset 0 of valid pointer x9 // IMHO we're reading 'cdev->gadget' and getting NULL // gadget is indeed at offset 0 of struct usb_composite_dev 2A 01 40 F9 ldr x10, [x9] // loading req->buf pointer, which is at offset 0 of struct usb_request 69 02 40 F9 ldr x9, [x19] // x10 is null, crash, appears to be attempt to read cdev->gadget->max_speed 4B 5D 40 B9 ldr w11, [x10, #0x5c] which seems to line up with ncm_do_notify() case NCM_NOTIFY_SPEED code fragment: event->wLength = cpu_to_le16(8); req->length = NCM_STATUS_BYTECOUNT; /* SPEED_CHANGE data is up/down speeds in bits/sec */ data = req->buf + sizeof *event; data[0] = cpu_to_le32(ncm_bitrate(cdev->gadget)); My analysis of registers and NULL ptr deref crash offset (Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000000000005c) heavily suggests that the crash is due to 'cdev->gadget' being NULL when executing: data[0] = cpu_to_le32(ncm_bitrate(cdev->gadget)); which calls: ncm_bitrate(NULL) which then calls: gadget_is_superspeed(NULL) which reads ((struct usb_gadget *)NULL)->max_speed and hits a panic. AFAICT, if I'm counting right, the offset of max_speed is indeed 0x5C. (remember there's a GKI KABI reservation of 16 bytes in struct work_struct) It's not at all clear to me how this is all supposed to work... but returning 0 seems much better than panic-ing...

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-21
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2026-06-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux 5.15.0-70.77
linux-allwinner-5.19
linux-aws 5.15.0-1034.38
linux-aws-5.0
linux-aws-5.11
linux-aws-5.13
linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1034.38~20.04.1
linux-aws-5.19
linux-aws-5.3
linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1100.108~18.04.1
linux-aws-5.8
linux-aws-6.2
linux-aws-6.5
linux-aws-fips
linux-aws-hwe 4.15.0-1154.167~16.04.1
linux-azure 5.15.0-1036.43
linux-azure-4.15 4.15.0-1163.178
linux-azure-5.11
linux-azure-5.13
linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1036.43~20.04.1
linux-azure-5.19
linux-azure-5.3
linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1106.112~18.04.1
linux-azure-5.8
linux-azure-6.2
linux-azure-6.5
linux-azure-edge
linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1036.43.1
linux-azure-fde-5.15
linux-azure-fde-5.19
linux-azure-fde-6.2
linux-azure-fips
linux-bluefield
linux-fips
linux-gcp 5.15.0-1032.40
linux-gcp-4.15 4.15.0-1148.164
linux-gcp-5.11
linux-gcp-5.13
linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1032.40~20.04.1
linux-gcp-5.19
linux-gcp-5.3
linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1103.112~18.04.1
linux-gcp-5.8
linux-gcp-6.2
linux-gcp-6.5
linux-gcp-fips
linux-gke 5.15.0-1031.36
linux-gke-4.15
linux-gke-5.15
linux-gke-5.4
linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1018.23
linux-gkeop-5.15 5.15.0-1018.23~20.04.1
linux-gkeop-5.4
linux-hwe
linux-hwe-5.11
linux-hwe-5.13
linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-70.77~20.04.1
linux-hwe-5.19
linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-147.164~18.04.1
linux-hwe-5.8
linux-hwe-6.2
linux-hwe-6.5
linux-hwe-edge
linux-ibm 5.15.0-1028.31
linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1047.52~18.04.1
linux-intel-5.13
linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1024.29
linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1028.33
linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1030.35~20.04.1
linux-iot 5.4.0-1017.18
linux-kvm 5.15.0-1031.36
linux-lowlatency 5.15.0-70.77
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-70.77~20.04.1
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5
linux-lts-xenial
linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1023.23
linux-nvidia-6.2
linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1014.14~20.04.1
linux-oem
linux-oem-5.10
linux-oem-5.13
linux-oem-5.14
linux-oem-5.17
linux-oem-5.6
linux-oem-6.0
linux-oem-6.1
linux-oem-6.5
linux-oracle 5.15.0-1033.39
linux-oracle-5.0
linux-oracle-5.11
linux-oracle-5.13
linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1033.39~20.04.1
linux-oracle-5.3
linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1099.108~18.04.1
linux-oracle-5.8
linux-oracle-6.5
linux-raspi 5.15.0-1027.29
linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1083.94~18.04.1
linux-raspi-realtime
linux-raspi2
linux-realtime 5.15.0-1036.39
linux-riscv
linux-riscv-5.11
linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1031.35~20.04.1
linux-riscv-5.19
linux-riscv-5.8
linux-riscv-6.5
linux-starfive-5.19
linux-starfive-6.2
linux-starfive-6.5
linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.4.0-1024.28

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