CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50297
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath9k: verify the expected usb_endpoints are present
The bug arises when a USB device claims to be an ATH9K but doesn't
have the expected endpoints. (In this case there was an interrupt
endpoint where the driver expected a bulk endpoint.) The kernel
needs to be able to handle such devices without getting an internal error.
usb 1-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 500 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:493 usb_submit_urb+0xce2/0x1430 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:493
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 PID: 500 Comm: kworker/3:2 Not tainted 5.10.135-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events request_firmware_work_func
RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0xce2/0x1430 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:493
Call Trace:
ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_rx_urbs drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:908 [inline]
ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_urbs+0x75e/0x1010 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1019
ath9k_hif_usb_dev_init drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1109 [inline]
ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0x142/0x530 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1242
request_firmware_work_func+0x12e/0x240 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1097
process_one_work+0x9af/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2279
worker_thread+0x61d/0x12f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2425
kthread+0x3b4/0x4a0 kernel/kthread.c:313
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:299
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.35 < 4.9.337)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.303)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.270)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.229)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.163)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.86)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1 < 6.1.2)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b7e6d681e00a96cde2b32a15ffa70e1be2e3209 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16ef02bad239f11f322df8425d302be62f0443ce Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1824ccabee5445347b83642e4087cc2eca070343 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d2eccf52ea0215c8d386b62af0b5fd4fc122bd5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/932f0a5e829fb0b823f96d7fa9a0f4fc96660b77 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c319196a0e34ed2e66d6f876f58d8d446335c2a7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca57748593ddd8e46d033fbaeb9d01ec533a6bfe Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d008a202a0528a058bac658e657c010ce8534f4a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d64436af0bc3c9e579be761d7684f228fb95f3bb Patch