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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-49299

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/26/2025 2:01:06 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

usb: dwc2: gadget: don't reset gadget's driver->bus

UDC driver should not touch gadget's driver internals, especially it
should not reset driver->bus. This wasn't harmful so far, but since
commit fc274c1e9973 ("USB: gadget: Add a new bus for gadgets") gadget
subsystem got it's own bus and messing with ->bus triggers the
following NULL pointer dereference:

dwc2 12480000.hsotg: bound driver g_ether
8<--- cut here ---
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
[00000000] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
Modules linked in: ...
CPU: 0 PID: 620 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5-next-20220504 #11862
Hardware name: Samsung Exynos (Flattened Device Tree)
PC is at module_add_driver+0x44/0xe8
LR is at sysfs_do_create_link_sd+0x84/0xe0
...
Process modprobe (pid: 620, stack limit = 0x(ptrval))
...
 module_add_driver from bus_add_driver+0xf4/0x1e4
 bus_add_driver from driver_register+0x78/0x10c
 driver_register from usb_gadget_register_driver_owner+0x40/0xb4
 usb_gadget_register_driver_owner from do_one_initcall+0x44/0x1e0
 do_one_initcall from do_init_module+0x44/0x1c8
 do_init_module from load_module+0x19b8/0x1b9c
 load_module from sys_finit_module+0xdc/0xfc
 sys_finit_module from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54
Exception stack(0xf1771fa8 to 0xf1771ff0)
...
dwc2 12480000.hsotg: new device is high-speed
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Fix this by removing driver->bus entry reset.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/172cfc167c8ee6238f24f9c16efd598602af643c
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3120aac6d0ecd9accf56894aeac0e265f74d3d5a
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5127c0f365265bb69cd776ad6e4b872c309f3fa8
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/547ebdc200b862dff761ff4890f66d8217c33316
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b0c0298f7c3b57417f1729ec4071f76864b72dd
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bee8f9808a7e82addfc73a0973b16a8bb684205b
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2159feb9d28ce496d77df98313ab454646372ac
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d232ca0bbc7d03144bad0ffd1792c3352bfd03fa
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efb15ff4a77fe053c941281775fefa91c87770e0