Posted by Ron E on Jan 10
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the mcp2200gpio
utility due to unsafe use of strcpy() and strcat() when constructing device
paths during automatic device discovery. A local attacker can trigger the
vulnerability by creating a specially crafted filename under /dev/usb/,
resulting in stack memory corruption and a process crash. In non-hardened
builds, this may lead to arbitrary code execution.
*Root Cause:*
The vulnerability…
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