{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2024-02-29T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: usb: hub: Guard against accesses to uninitialized BOS descriptors",
    "id" : "2267038",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267038"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.4",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nusb: hub: Guard against accesses to uninitialized BOS descriptors\nMany functions in drivers/usb/core/hub.c and drivers/usb/core/hub.h\naccess fields inside udev->bos without checking if it was allocated and\ninitialized. If usb_get_bos_descriptor() fails for whatever\nreason, udev->bos will be NULL and those accesses will result in a\ncrash:\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\nCPU: 5 PID: 17818 Comm: kworker/5:1 Tainted: G W 5.15.108-18910-gab0e1cb584e1 #1 <HASH:1f9e 1>\nHardware name: Google Kindred/Kindred, BIOS Google_Kindred.12672.413.0 02/03/2021\nWorkqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event\nRIP: 0010:hub_port_reset+0x193/0x788\nCode: 89 f7 e8 20 f7 15 00 48 8b 43 08 80 b8 96 03 00 00 03 75 36 0f b7 88 92 03 00 00 81 f9 10 03 00 00 72 27 48 8b 80 a8 03 00 00 <48> 83 78 18 00 74 19 48 89 df 48 8b 75 b0 ba 02 00 00 00 4c 89 e9\nRSP: 0018:ffffab740c53fcf8 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa1bc5f678000 RCX: 0000000000000310\nRDX: fffffffffffffdff RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: ffffa1be9655b840\nRBP: ffffab740c53fd70 R08: 00001b7d5edaa20c R09: ffffffffb005e060\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: ffffab740c53fd3e R14: 0000000000000032 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa1be96540000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000018 CR3: 000000022e80c005 CR4: 00000000003706e0\nCall Trace:\nhub_event+0x73f/0x156e\n? hub_activate+0x5b7/0x68f\nprocess_one_work+0x1a2/0x487\nworker_thread+0x11a/0x288\nkthread+0x13a/0x152\n? process_one_work+0x487/0x487\n? kthread_associate_blkcg+0x70/0x70\nret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\nFall back to a default behavior if the BOS descriptor isn't accessible\nand skip all the functionalities that depend on it: LPM support checks,\nSuper Speed capabilitiy checks, U1/U2 states setup." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-06-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:3627",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.5.1.rt7.346.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-06-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:3618",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-11-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:9315",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-11-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:9315",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2025-07-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:10701",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.76.1.el9_4"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52477\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52477\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024022921-CVE-2023-52477-6f20@gregkh/T/#u" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-52477",
  "csaw" : false
}