CVE-2023-54186
Linux Kernel vulnerability analysis and mitigation

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: typec: altmodes/displayport: fix pin_assignment_show

This patch fixes negative indexing of buf array in pin_assignment_show when get_current_pin_assignments returns 0 i.e. no compatible pin assignments are found.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in pin_assignment_show+0x26c/0x33c ... Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x110/0x204 dump_stack_lvl+0x84/0xbc print_report+0x358/0x974 kasan_report+0x9c/0xfc __do_kernel_fault+0xd4/0x2d4 do_bad_area+0x48/0x168 do_tag_check_fault+0x24/0x38 do_mem_abort+0x6c/0x14c el1_abort+0x44/0x68 el1h_64_sync_handler+0x64/0xa4 el1h_64_sync+0x78/0x7c pin_assignment_show+0x26c/0x33c dev_attr_show+0x50/0xc0


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