CVE-2025-21689

USB: serial: quatech2: fix null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb()

Medium · published February 10, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

USB: serial: quatech2: fix null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb()

This patch addresses a null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb() due to

an incorrect bounds check in the following:

if (newport > serial->num_ports) {

dev_err(&port->dev,

"%s - port change to invalid port: %i\n",

__func__, newport);

break;

}

The condition doesn't account for the valid range of the serial->port

buffer, which is from 0 to serial->num_ports - 1. When newport is equal

to serial->num_ports, the assignment of "port" in the

following code is out-of-bounds and NULL:

serial_priv->current_port = newport;

port = serial->port[serial_priv->current_port];

The fix checks if newport is greater than or equal to serial->num_ports

indicating it is out-of-bounds.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00226 · 12.6th percentile
Published
2025-02-10T15:58Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 FEB 15:58Z
    USB: serial: quatech2: fix null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb()
    cvelistv5