CVE-2025-21704
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: cdc-acm: Check control transfer buffer size before access If the first fragment is shorter than struct usb_cdc_notification, we can't calculate an expected_size. Log an error and discard the notification instead of reading lengths from memory outside the received data, which can lead to memory corruption when the expected_size decreases between fragments, causing `expected_size - acm->nb_index` to wrap. This issue has been present since the beginning of git history; however, it only leads to memory corruption since commit ea2583529cd1 ("cdc-acm: reassemble fragmented notifications"). A mitigating factor is that acm_ctrl_irq() can only execute after userspace has opened /dev/ttyACM*; but if ModemManager is running, ModemManager will do that automatically depending on the USB device's vendor/product IDs and its other interfaces.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 30% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/383d516a0ebc8641372b521c8cb717f0f1834831
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6abb510251e75f875797d8983a830e6731fa281c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7828e9363ac4d23b02419bf2a45b9f1d9fb35646
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/871619c2b78fdfe05afb4e8ba548678687beb812
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90dd2f1b7342b9a671a5ea4160f408037b92b118