Re: [PATCH] usb_driver_claim_interface: add sanity checking

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On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 10:08 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> 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?

They are using a programmable gadget.
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/90

	HTH
		Oliver



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