published December 30, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: sisusbvga: Add endpoint checks
The syzbot fuzzer was able to provoke a WARNING from the sisusbvga driver:
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usb 1-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 26 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504 usb_submit_urb+0xed6/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 26 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc5-syzkaller-00199-g5af6ce704936 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/12/2023
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0xed6/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504
Code: 7c 24 18 e8 6c 50 80 fb 48 8b 7c 24 18 e8 62 1a 01 ff 41 89 d8 44 89 e1 4c 89 ea 48 89 c6 48 c7 c7 60 b1 fa 8a e8 84 b0 be 03 <0f> 0b e9 58 f8 ff ff e8 3e 50 80 fb 48 81 c5 c0 05 00 00 e9 84 f7
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a1ed18 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff888012783a80 RSI: ffffffff816680ec RDI: fffff52000143d95
RBP: ffff888079020000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000080000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: ffff888017d33370 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: ffff888021213600
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005592753a60b0 CR3: 0000000022899000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
sisusb_bulkout_msg drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.c:224 [inline]
sisusb_send_bulk_msg.constprop.0+0x904/0x1230 drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.c:379
sisusb_send_bridge_packet drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.c:567 [inline]
sisusb_do_init_gfxdevice drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.c:2077 [inline]
sisusb_init_gfxdevice+0x87b/0x4000 drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.c:2177
sisusb_probe+0x9cd/0xbe2 drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.c:2869
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The problem was caused by the fact that the driver does not check
whether the endpoints it uses are actually present and have the
appropriate types. This can be fixed by adding a simple check of
the endpoints.