CVE-2022-50297 (GCVE-0-2022-50297)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:45 – Updated: 2025-10-29 10:50
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Title
wifi: ath9k: verify the expected usb_endpoints are present
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < 932f0a5e829fb0b823f96d7fa9a0f4fc96660b77 (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < d008a202a0528a058bac658e657c010ce8534f4a (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < d64436af0bc3c9e579be761d7684f228fb95f3bb (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < ca57748593ddd8e46d033fbaeb9d01ec533a6bfe (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < 1824ccabee5445347b83642e4087cc2eca070343 (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < c319196a0e34ed2e66d6f876f58d8d446335c2a7 (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < 2d2eccf52ea0215c8d386b62af0b5fd4fc122bd5 (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < 0b7e6d681e00a96cde2b32a15ffa70e1be2e3209 (git)
Affected: fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08 , < 16ef02bad239f11f322df8425d302be62f0443ce (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.35
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.35 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.9.337 , ≤ 4.9.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.303 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.270 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.229 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.163 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.86 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.16 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.2 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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