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

USB: core: Fix race by not overwriting udev->descriptor in hub_port_init()

Syzbot reported an out-of-bounds read in sysfs.c:read_descriptors():

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in read_descriptors+0x263/0x280 drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c:883
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801e78b8c8 by task udevd/5011

CPU: 0 PID: 5011 Comm: udevd Not tainted 6.4.0-rc6-syzkaller-00195-g40f71e7cd3c6 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0xd9/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x3c0 mm/kasan/report.c:351
 print_report mm/kasan/report.c:462 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x11c/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:572
 read_descriptors+0x263/0x280 drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c:883
...
Allocated by task 758:
...
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:966 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x5e/0x190 mm/slab_common.c:979
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:680 [inline]
 usb_get_configuration+0x1f7/0x5170 drivers/usb/core/config.c:887
 usb_enumerate_device drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2407 [inline]
 usb_new_device+0x12b0/0x19d0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2545

As analyzed by Khazhy Kumykov, the cause of this bug is a race between
read_descriptors() and hub_port_init(): The first routine uses a field
in udev->descriptor, not expecting it to change, while the second
overwrites it.

Prior to commit 45bf39f8df7f ("USB: core: Don't hold device lock while
reading the "descriptors" sysfs file") this race couldn't occur,
because the routines were mutually exclusive thanks to the device
locking.  Removing that locking from read_descriptors() exposed it to
the race.

The best way to fix the bug is to keep hub_port_init() from changing
udev->descriptor once udev has been initialized and registered.
Drivers expect the descriptors stored in the kernel to be immutable;
we should not undermine this expectation.  In fact, this change should
have been made long ago.

So now hub_port_init() will take an additional argument, specifying a
buffer in which to store the device descriptor it reads.  (If udev has
not yet been initialized, the buffer pointer will be NULL and then
hub_port_init() will store the device descriptor in udev as before.)
This eliminates the data race responsible for the out-of-bounds read.

The changes to hub_port_init() appear more extensive than they really
are, because of indentation changes resulting from an attempt to avoid
writing to other parts of the usb_device structure after it has been
initialized.  Similar changes should be made to the code that reads
the BOS descriptor, but that can be handled in a separate patch later
on.  This patch is sufficient to fix the bug found by syzbot.

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fe9d87996062f5eb0ca476ad0257f79bf43aaf5 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8186596a663506b1124bede9fde6f243ef9f37ee [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d241c5d9a9b7ad95c90c6520272fe404d5ac88f [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4a074b1fb222164ed7d5c0b8c922dc4a0840848 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9fbfb349eacc0820f91c797d7f0a3ac7a4935b5 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff33299ec8bb80cdcc073ad9c506bd79bb2ed20b [No types assigned]