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CVE-2026-98771

usb: storage: sierra_ms: reject short SWoC info transfers

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: storage: sierra_ms: reject short SWoC info transfers sierra_get_swoc_info() requests sizeof(struct swoc_info) (60) bytes from the device via usb_control_msg(), but its callers only treat a negative return value as failure. A device that answers the vendor-specific GetSwocInfo request with a short IN transfer is therefore accepted, leaving the tail of the freshly allocated (kmalloc(), non-zeroing) swoc_info buffer uninitialized. truinst_show() subsequently prints swocInfo->rev, swocInfo->LinuxSKU and swocInfo->LinuxVer from that buffer into the world-readable (0444) "truinst" sysfs attribute. An emulated/malicious USB device (VID 0x1199, PID 0x0fff) can exploit this to disclose up to 5 bytes of stale kernel heap memory (kmalloc-64) to unprivileged userspace, once per sysfs read, indefinitely. On kernels built without init_on_alloc this leaks recently freed heap contents. Only accept the transfer when the full structure was received. sierra_ms_init() already retries failed queries, so well-behaved devices are unaffected.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 to < 353ca2623104a3baf5642c3ea31569df04ce4aafaffected
  • 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 to < 799810166646bcf9dc5a4e77bc4b0bdf6bc443f2affected
  • 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 to < 411da2ec8c62bfa39407e5a20d659b973b3cf311affected
  • 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 to < 4faaad69f18332246bbd4ca41718beb2a305bb72affected
  • 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 to < c85e8331d298b8f1dee8fe63718e76435cec7133affected
  • 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 to < e2d62928f2666a2964a23b1d39e6e762f0628d7baffected
  • 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 to < db9d3be156baca6ef80ae5d93acfeb85c61a74ddaffected
  • 32fe5e393455d87db4988af03915634304870fb4 to < 8a0200d14acd9db388b85cd016e68a4e60d900ecaffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 2.6.27affected
  • 0 to < 2.6.27unaffected
  • 5.10.273 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.224 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.191 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.160 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.113 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.56 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.2.10 to ≤ 7.2.*unaffected
  • 7.3 to ≤ *unaffected

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