CVE-2013-2058

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-11-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.7.3; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+219)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=929473ea05db455ad88cdc081f2adc556b8dc48f
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/05/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959210
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/929473ea05db455ad88cdc081f2adc556b8dc48f
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=929473ea05db455ad88cdc081f2adc556b8dc48f
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/05/2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959210
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/929473ea05db455ad88cdc081f2adc556b8dc48f

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