CVE-2022-49980

USB: gadget: Fix use-after-free Read in usb_udc_uevent()

published June 18, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

USB: gadget: Fix use-after-free Read in usb_udc_uevent()

The syzbot fuzzer found a race between uevent callbacks and gadget

driver unregistration that can cause a use-after-free bug:

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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in usb_udc_uevent+0x11f/0x130

drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1732

Read of size 8 at addr ffff888078ce2050 by task udevd/2968

CPU: 1 PID: 2968 Comm: udevd Not tainted 5.19.0-rc4-next-20220628-syzkaller #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google

06/29/2022

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]

dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106

print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:317 [inline]

print_report.cold+0x2ba/0x719 mm/kasan/report.c:433

kasan_report+0xbe/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:495

usb_udc_uevent+0x11f/0x130 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1732

dev_uevent+0x290/0x770 drivers/base/core.c:2424

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The bug occurs because usb_udc_uevent() dereferences udc->driver but

does so without acquiring the udc_lock mutex, which protects this

field. If the gadget driver is unbound from the udc concurrently with

uevent processing, the driver structure may be accessed after it has

been deallocated.

To prevent the race, we make sure that the routine holds the mutex

around the racing accesses.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00241 · 14.3th percentile
Published
2025-06-18T11:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 11:00Z
    USB: gadget: Fix use-after-free Read in usb_udc_uevent()
    cvelistv5