CVE-2013-2058 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=929473ea05db455ad88cdc081f2adc556b8dc48f http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/05/2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959210 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/929473ea05db455ad88cdc081f2adc556b8dc48f