CVE-2013-2058

medium

Description

The host_start function in drivers/usb/chipidea/host.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.4 does not properly support a certain non-streaming option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by sending a large amount of network traffic through a USB/Ethernet adapter.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959210

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/05/2

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.4

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=929473ea05db455ad88cdc081f2adc556b8dc48f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-11-04

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium