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Unscored CVE-2022-48838 EUVD-2022-53717GHSA-697g-g69g-85cq

usb: gadget: Fix use-after-free bug by not setting udc->dev.driver

Published Jul 16, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: gadget: Fix use-after-free bug by not setting udc->dev.driver

The syzbot fuzzer found a use-after-free bug:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in dev_uevent+0x712/0x780 drivers/base/core.c:2320
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88802b934098 by task udevd/3689

CPU: 2 PID: 3689 Comm: udevd Not tainted 5.17.0-rc4-syzkaller-00229-g4f12b742eb2b #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0x8d/0x303 mm/kasan/report.c:255
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:442 [inline]
kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf mm/kasan/report.c:459
dev_uevent+0x712/0x780 drivers/base/core.c:2320
uevent_show+0x1b8/0x380 drivers/base/core.c:2391
dev_attr_show+0x4b/0x90 drivers/base/core.c:2094

Although the bug manifested in the driver core, the real cause was a
race with the gadget core. dev_uevent() does:

if (dev->driver)
add_uevent_var(env, "DRIVER=%s", dev->driver->name);

and between the test and the dereference of dev->driver, the gadget
core sets dev->driver to NULL.

The race wouldn't occur if the gadget core registered its devices on
a real bus, using the standard synchronization techniques of the
driver core. However, it's not necessary to make such a large change
in order to fix this bug; all we need to do is make sure that
udc->dev.driver is always NULL.

In fact, there is no reason for udc->dev.driver ever to be set to
anything, let alone to the value it currently gets: the address of the
gadget's driver. After all, a gadget driver only knows how to manage
a gadget, not how to manage a UDC.

This patch simply removes the statements in the gadget core that touch
udc->dev.driver.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 3.1 4.9.308

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 5.17.3-1 —
Debian 13 linux 5.17.3-1 —
Debian 12 linux 5.17.3-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-37.39 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1011.14 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1010.12 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1008.12 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke 5.15.0-1008.10 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1007.8 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1008.11 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1010.11 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1009.12 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1011.13 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +25 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux 5.4.0-117.132 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws +1 5.4.0-1078.84 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure 5.4.0-1083.87 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1008.9~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.4.0-1040.44 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.4.0-1046.48 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-41.44~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.4.0-1026.29 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1008.11~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-iot 5.4.0-1004.6 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.4.0-1068.72 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-42.45~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.4.0-1076.83 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.4.0-1065.75 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux 4.15.0-184.194 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws 4.15.0-1133.143 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 +1 5.4.0-1078.84~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-4.15 4.15.0-1142.156 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1083.87~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-4.15 4.15.0-1127.142 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-117.132~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1028.32~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-kvm 4.15.0-1119.123 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle 4.15.0-1098.108 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1076.83~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1065.75~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1014.14 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-aws-fips +1 5.4.0-1078.84+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.4.0-1083.87+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips 5.4.0-1054.61 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 4.15.0-2072.76 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 4.15.0-2053.58 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips 4.15.0-1090.100 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 4.15.0-2037.41 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS linux-fips 4.4.0-1105.112 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux 4.4.0-259.293 USN-7039-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-aws 4.4.0-1174.189 USN-7039-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-aws-hwe 4.15.0-1133.143~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-azure 4.15.0-1142.156~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-gcp 4.15.0-1127.142~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-hwe 4.15.0-184.194~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-kvm 4.4.0-1137.147 USN-7039-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-oracle 4.15.0-1098.108~16.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-aws 4.4.0-1136.142 USN-7039-1
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-azure 4.15.0-1142.156~14.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-lts-xenial 4.4.0-259.293~14.04.1 USN-7039-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +5 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.63.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2947-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1.150500.6.33.8 SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-docs 5.14.21-150500.55.73.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-64kb +6 5.14.21-150400.24.128.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2929-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.128.1.150400.24.62.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2929-1
SLES 15 SP3 kernel-64kb +7 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3249-1
SLES 15 SP3 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1.150300.18.103.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3249-1
SLES 12 SP5 kernel-syms +2 4.12.14-122.293.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0473-1
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SLES for SAP 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.128.1.150400.24.62.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2929-1
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SLES for SAP 15 SP3 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1.150300.18.103.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3249-1
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SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1
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SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150500.13.64.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2894-1
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SLE Micro 5.2 kernel-rt +1 5.3.18-150300.181.2 SUSE-SU-2024:3225-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-default 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3249-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1.150300.18.103.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3249-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-rt +1 5.3.18-150300.181.2 SUSE-SU-2024:3225-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1
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SLE Live Patching 15 SP4 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.128.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2929-1
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SLE HPC 15 SP3 kernel-default-base 5.3.18-150300.59.174.1.150300.18.103.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3249-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.64.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2894-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.5 dtb-aarch64 +9 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1
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