CVE-2013-2058: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.7.3; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.