CVE-2025-22023

usb: xhci: Don't skip on Stopped - Length Invalid

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: April 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:44 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: xhci: Don't skip on Stopped - Length Invalid Up until commit d56b0b2ab142 ("usb: xhci: ensure skipped isoc TDs are returned when isoc ring is stopped") in v6.11, the driver didn't skip missed isochronous TDs when handling Stoppend and Stopped - Length Invalid events. Instead, it erroneously cleared the skip flag, which would cause the ring to get stuck, as future events won't match the missed TD which is never removed from the queue until it's cancelled. This buggy logic seems to have been in place substantially unchanged since the 3.x series over 10 years ago, which probably speaks first and foremost about relative rarity of this case in normal usage, but by the spec I see no reason why it shouldn't be possible. After d56b0b2ab142, TDs are immediately skipped when handling those Stopped events. This poses a potential problem in case of Stopped - Length Invalid, which occurs either on completed TDs (likely already given back) or Link and No-Op TRBs. Such event won't be recognized as matching any TD (unless it's the rare Link TRB inside a TD) and will result in skipping all pending TDs, giving them back possibly before they are done, risking isoc data loss and maybe UAF by HW. As a compromise, don't skip and don't clear the skip flag on this kind of event. Then the next event will skip missed TDs. A downside of not handling Stopped - Length Invalid on a Link inside a TD is that if the TD is cancelled, its actual length will not be updated to account for TRBs (silently) completed before the TD was stopped. I had no luck producing this sequence of completion events so there is no compelling demonstration of any resulting disaster. It may be a very rare, obscure condition. The sole motivation for this patch is that if such unlikely event does occur, I'd rather risk reporting a cancelled partially done isoc frame as empty than gamble with UAF. This will be fixed more properly by looking at Stopped event's TRB pointer when making skipping decisions, but such rework is unlikely to be backported to v6.12, which will stay around for a few years.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.11 ≤ v < 6.12.226.11 ≤ v < 6.13.106.11 ≤ v < 6.14.16.11 ≤ v < 6.156.13 ≤ v < 6.13.106.116.14d56b0b2ab142940b06eac56dcb3ab1ab88df38a2
Vendor states this is fixed in 49cf6f5293aeb706dd672608478336a003f37df6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 58d0a3fab5f4fdc112c16a4c6d382f62097afd1c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6af20ac254cbd0e1178a3542767c9308e209eee5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in de9e78167f760a699806793d7c987239e4f6c8c3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.22 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.13.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.14.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.15 (unaffected)

References (4)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49cf6f5293aeb706dd672608478336a003f37df6
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58d0a3fab5f4fdc112c16a4c6d382f62097afd1c
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6af20ac254cbd0e1178a3542767c9308e209eee5
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de9e78167f760a699806793d7c987239e4f6c8c3

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-416

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