Discovery of 26 USB Bugs in Linux, Windows, macOS and FreeBSD

A new fuzzing tool, USBFuzz, has identified 18 USB bugs impacting Linux. Eleven have already been patched.

Academics say they discovered 26 new vulnerabilities in the USB driver stack employed by operating systems such as Linux, macOs, Windows, and FreeBSD.

The research team, made up by Hui Peng from Purdue University and Mathias Payer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, said all the bugs were discovered with a new tool they created, named USBFuzz.