CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-50034

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the USB cdns3 driver has a use-after-free vulnerability in cdns3_wa2_remove_old_request(). After freeing memory via cdns3_gadget_ep_free_request(), the priv_req list is still used, leading to a read after free.

Risk Assessment

This could lead to system crash or potentially arbitrary code execution by a local attacker with access to the USB device.

Recommendation

Apply a Linux kernel update that includes the fix moving list_del_init() before freeing the memory.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: cdns3 fix use-after-free at workaround 2 BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in __list_del_entry_valid+0x10/0xac cdns3_wa2_remove_old_request() { ... kfree(priv_req->request.buf); cdns3_gadget_ep_free_request(&priv_ep->endpoint, &priv_req->request); list_del_init(&priv_req->list); ^^^ use after free ... } cdns3_gadget_ep_free_request() free the space pointed by priv_req, but priv_req is used in the following list_del_init(). This patch move list_del_init() before cdns3_gadget_ep_free_request().

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