# CVE-2022-25258: An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2022-02-16 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/75e5b4849b81e19e9efe1654b30d7f3151c33c2c
- https://github.com/szymonh/d-os-descriptor
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.10
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TCW2KZYJ2H6BKZE3CVLHRIXYDGNYYC5P/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5092
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00012.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5096
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0007/

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