CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-27059

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.24%

14th percentile - higher than 14% of all known CVEs

Summary

The isd200 sub-driver in the Linux kernel's usb-storage uses HEADS and SECTORS values from ATA ID information to compute cylinder and head values when building a CDB for READ or WRITE commands. If either value is 0, the division/modulus operation causes a kernel crash. This can occur with a flawed or subversive emulated USB device.

Risk Assessment

An attacker with physical USB access or the ability to present an emulated device can trigger a kernel crash (denial of service) on the affected system.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that refuses to bind to a device when ATA_ID_HEADS or ATA_ID_SECTORS is 0.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: usb-storage: Prevent divide-by-0 error in isd200_ata_command The isd200 sub-driver in usb-storage uses the HEADS and SECTORS values in the ATA ID information to calculate cylinder and head values when creating a CDB for READ or WRITE commands. The calculation involves division and modulus operations, which will cause a crash if either of these values is 0. While this never happens with a genuine device, it could happen with a flawed or subversive emulation, as reported by the syzbot fuzzer. Protect against this possibility by refusing to bind to the device if either the ATA_ID_HEADS or ATA_ID_SECTORS value in the device's ID information is 0. This requires isd200_Initialization() to return a negative error code when initialization fails; currently it always returns 0 (even when there is an error).

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