CVE-2023-53548

EUVD-2025-32325
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: usbnet: Fix WARNING in usbnet_start_xmit/usb_submit_urb

The syzbot fuzzer identified a problem in the usbnet driver:

usb 1-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 754 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504 usb_submit_urb+0xed6/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 754 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7-syzkaller-00014-g692b7dc87ca6 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023
Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work
RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0xed6/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504
Code: 7c 24 18 e8 2c b4 5b fb 48 8b 7c 24 18 e8 42 07 f0 fe 41 89 d8 44 89 e1 4c 89 ea 48 89 c6 48 c7 c7 a0 c9 fc 8a e8 5a 6f 23 fb <0f> 0b e9 58 f8 ff ff e8 fe b3 5b fb 48 81 c5 c0 05 00 00 e9 84 f7
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000463f568 EFLAGS: 00010086
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88801eb28000 RSI: ffffffff814c03b7 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff8881443b7190 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: ffff88802a77cb18 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: ffff888018262500
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000556a99c15a18 CR3: 0000000028c71000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 usbnet_start_xmit+0xfe5/0x2190 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1453
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4918 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4932 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3578 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x187/0x700 net/core/dev.c:3594
...

This bug is caused by the fact that usbnet trusts the bulk endpoint
addresses its probe routine receives in the driver_info structure, and
it does not check to see that these endpoints actually exist and have
the expected type and directions.

The fix is simply to add such a check.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 5%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
2.6.14 ≤
𝑥
< 4.14.322
linuxlinux_kernel
4.15 ≤
𝑥
< 4.19.291
linuxlinux_kernel
4.20 ≤
𝑥
< 5.4.253
linuxlinux_kernel
5.5 ≤
𝑥
< 5.10.190
linuxlinux_kernel
5.11 ≤
𝑥
< 5.15.126
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16 ≤
𝑥
< 6.1.45
linuxlinux_kernel
6.2 ≤
𝑥
< 6.4.10
linuxlinux_kernel
6.5:rc1
linuxlinux_kernel
6.5:rc2
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
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Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
linux
bookworm
6.1.148-1
fixed
bookworm (security)
6.1.153-1
fixed
bullseye
5.10.223-1
fixed
bullseye (security)
5.10.237-1
fixed
forky
6.16.9-1
fixed
sid
6.16.9-1
fixed
trixie
6.12.43-1
fixed
trixie (security)
6.12.48-1
fixed