In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: serial: quatech2: fix null-ptr-deref in qt2processread_urb()
This patch addresses a null-ptr-deref in qt2processread_urb() due to an incorrect bounds check in the following:
if (newport > serial->num_ports) {
dev_err(&port->dev,
"%s - port change to invalid port: %i\n",
__func__, newport);
break;
}
The condition doesn't account for the valid range of the serial->port buffer, which is from 0 to serial->numports - 1. When newport is equal to serial->numports, the assignment of "port" in the following code is out-of-bounds and NULL:
serial_priv->current_port = newport;
port = serial->port[serial_priv->current_port];
The fix checks if newport is greater than or equal to serial->num_ports indicating it is out-of-bounds.