CVE-2024-36895usb: gadget: uvc: use correct buffer size when parsing configfs lists
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.23%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 86% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: uvc: use correct buffer size when parsing configfs lists This commit fixes uvc gadget support on 32-bit platforms. Commit 0df28607c5cb ("usb: gadget: uvc: Generalise helper functions for reuse") introduced a helper function __uvcg_iter_item_entries() to aid with parsing lists of items on configfs attributes stores. This function is a generalization of another very similar function, which used a stack-allocated temporary buffer of fixed size for each item in the list and used the sizeof() operator to check for potential buffer overruns. The new function was changed to allocate the now variably sized temp buffer on heap, but wasn't properly updated to also check for max buffer size using the computed size instead of sizeof() operator. As a result, the maximum item size was 7 (plus null terminator) on 64-bit platforms, and 3 on 32-bit ones. While 7 is accidentally just barely enough, 3 is definitely too small for some of UVC configfs attributes. For example, dwFrameInteval, specified in 100ns units, usually has 6-digit item values, e.g. 166666 for 60fps.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
Published
- 24 months later
· 24 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 86% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
- affected 0df28607c5cb4fe60bba591e9858a8f7ba39aa4a – < 7a54e5052bde582fd0e7677334fe7a5be92e242c
- affected 0df28607c5cb4fe60bba591e9858a8f7ba39aa4a – < a422089ce42ced73713e5032aad29a9a7cbe9528
- affected 0df28607c5cb4fe60bba591e9858a8f7ba39aa4a – < 650ae71c80749fc7cb8858c8049f532eaec64410
- affected 6.3
- unaffected < 6.3
- unaffected 6.6.31 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.8.10 – ≤ 6.8.*
- unaffected 6.9 – ≤ *
References
References3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a54e5052bde582fd0e7677334fe7a5be92e242c (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a422089ce42ced73713e5032aad29a9a7cbe9528 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/650ae71c80749fc7cb8858c8049f532eaec64410 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-36247 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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