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CVE-2013-2058
medium
Description
The host_start function in drivers/usb/chipidea/host.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.4 does not properly support a certain non-streaming option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by sending a large amount of network traffic through a USB/Ethernet adapter.
References
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/929473ea05db455ad88cdc081f2adc556b8dc48f
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2013-2040
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959210
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/05/2