CVE-2022-50297

wifi: ath9k: verify the expected usb_endpoints are present

published September 15, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

wifi: ath9k: verify the expected usb_endpoints are present

The bug arises when a USB device claims to be an ATH9K but doesn't

have the expected endpoints. (In this case there was an interrupt

endpoint where the driver expected a bulk endpoint.) The kernel

needs to be able to handle such devices without getting an internal error.

usb 1-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 500 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:493 usb_submit_urb+0xce2/0x1430 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:493

Modules linked in:

CPU: 3 PID: 500 Comm: kworker/3:2 Not tainted 5.10.135-syzkaller #0

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014

Workqueue: events request_firmware_work_func

RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0xce2/0x1430 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:493

Call Trace:

ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_rx_urbs drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:908 [inline]

ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_urbs+0x75e/0x1010 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1019

ath9k_hif_usb_dev_init drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1109 [inline]

ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0x142/0x530 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1242

request_firmware_work_func+0x12e/0x240 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1097

process_one_work+0x9af/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2279

worker_thread+0x61d/0x12f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2425

kthread+0x3b4/0x4a0 kernel/kthread.c:313

ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:299

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00163 · 5.2th percentile
Published
2025-09-15T14:45Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:45Z
    wifi: ath9k: verify the expected usb_endpoints are present
    cvelistv5