Re: [PATCH] usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking

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On Wed, 16 Mar 2016, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Attacks that trick drivers into passing a NULL pointer
> to usb_driver_claim_interface() using forged descriptors are
> known. This thwarts them by sanity checking.

I'm curious -- how do these attacks carry out their trickery?

Alan Stern

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