Public bug reported:

Bug #1413992 's patch introduced a possible infinite loop.

commit 0d3bba0287d4e284c3ec7d3397e81eec920d5e7e
Author: Quentin Casasnovas <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Apr 14 11:25:43 2015 +0200

    cdc-acm: prevent infinite loop when parsing CDC headers.

    Phil and I found out a problem with commit:

      7e860a6e7aa6 ("cdc-acm: add sanity checks")

    It added some sanity checks to ignore potential garbage in CDC headers but
    also introduced a potential infinite loop.  This can happen at the first
    loop iteration (elength = 0 in that case) if the description isn't a
    DT_CS_INTERFACE or later if 'buffer[0]' is zero.

    It should also be noted that the wrong length was being added to 'buffer'
    in case 'buffer[1]' was not a DT_CS_INTERFACE descriptor, since elength was
    assigned after that check in the loop.

    A specially crafted USB device could be used to trigger this
infinite loop.

    Fixes: 7e860a6e7aa6 ("cdc-acm: add sanity checks")
    Signed-off-by: Phil Turnbull <[email protected]>
    Signed-off-by: Quentin Casasnovas <[email protected]>
    CC: Sergei Shtylyov <[email protected]>
    CC: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
    CC: Adam Lee <[email protected]>
    CC: <[email protected]>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Adam Lee (adam8157)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Trusty)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Utopic)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Vivid)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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