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CVE-2022-25258
An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The USB Gadget subsystem lacks certain…
Medium4.6EPSS 0.92%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The USB Gadget subsystem lacks certain validation of interface OS descriptor requests (ones with a large array index and ones associated with NULL function pointer retrieval). Memory corruption might occur.
Timeline
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.92% · top 40% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/75e5b4849b81e19e9efe1654b30d7f3151c33c2c (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/szymonh/d-os-descriptor (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.10 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-9d4e48836d (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- DSA-5092 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20220309 [SECURITY] [DLA 2940-1] linux security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20220309 [SECURITY] [DLA 2941-1] linux-4.19 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- DSA-5096 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0007/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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