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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-48760" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-06-20T11:13:38.532Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:46:24.191Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48760" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48760.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48760" title: "USB: core: Fix hang in usb_kill_urb by adding memory barriers" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: core: Fix hang in usb_kill_urb by adding memory barriers\n\nThe syzbot fuzzer has identified a bug in which processes hang waiting\nfor usb_kill_urb() to return. It turns out the issue is not unlinking\nthe URB; that works just fine. Rather, the problem arises when the\nwakeup notification that the URB has completed is not received.\n\nThe reason is memory-access ordering on SMP systems. In outline form,\nusb_kill_urb() and __usb_hcd_giveback_urb() operating concurrently on\ndifferent CPUs perform the following actions:\n\nCPU 0\t\t\t\t\tCPU 1\n----------------------------\t\t---------------------------------\nusb_kill_urb():\t\t\t\t__usb_hcd_giveback_urb():\n ...\t\t\t\t\t ...\n atomic_inc(&urb-\u003ereject);\t\t atomic_dec(&urb-\u003euse_count);\n ...\t\t\t\t\t ...\n wait_event(usb_kill_urb_queue,\n\tatomic_read(&urb-\u003euse_count) == 0);\n\t\t\t\t\t if (atomic_read(&urb-\u003ereject))\n\t\t\t\t\t\twake_up(&usb_kill_urb_queue);\n\nConfining your attention to urb-\u003ereject and urb-\u003euse_count, you can\nsee that the overall pattern of accesses on CPU 0 is:\n\n\twrite urb-\u003ereject, then read urb-\u003euse_count;\n\nwhereas the overall pattern of accesses on CPU 1 is:\n\n\twrite urb-\u003euse_count, then read urb-\u003ereject.\n\nThis pattern is referred to in memory-model circles as SB (for \"Store\nBuffering\"), and it is well known that without suitable enforcement of\nthe desired order of accesses -- in the form of memory barriers -- it\nis entirely possible for one or both CPUs to execute their reads ahead\nof their writes. The end result will be that sometimes CPU 0 sees the\nold un-decremented value of urb-\u003euse_count while CPU 1 sees the old\nun-incremented value of urb-\u003ereject. Consequently CPU 0 ends up on\nthe wait queue and never gets woken up, leading to the observed hang\nin usb_kill_urb().\n\nThe same pattern of accesses occurs in usb_poison_urb() and the\nfailure pathway of usb_hcd_submit_urb().\n\nThe problem is fixed by adding suitable memory barriers. To provide\nproper memory-access ordering in the SB pattern, a full barrier is\nrequired on both CPUs. The atomic_inc() and atomic_dec() accesses\nthemselves don't provide any memory ordering, but since they are\npresent, we can use the optimized smp_mb__after_atomic() memory\nbarrier in the various routines to obtain the desired effect.\n\nThis patch adds the necessary memory barriers." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"49367d8f1d9f26482cf7089489e90f0afd0a942c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f138ef224dffd15d5e5c5b095859719e0038427"},{"version":"49367d8f1d9f26482cf7089489e90f0afd0a942c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b50f5ca60475710bbc9a3af32fbfc17b1e69c2f0"},{"version":"49367d8f1d9f26482cf7089489e90f0afd0a942c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"546ba238535d925254e0b3f12012a5c55801e2f3"},{"version":"49367d8f1d9f26482cf7089489e90f0afd0a942c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5904dfd3ddaff3bf4a41c3baf0a8e8f31ed4599b"},{"version":"49367d8f1d9f26482cf7089489e90f0afd0a942c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c61fce322ac2ef7fecf025285353570d60e41d6"},{"version":"49367d8f1d9f26482cf7089489e90f0afd0a942c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3b131e30e612ff0e32de6c1cb4f69f89db29193"},{"version":"49367d8f1d9f26482cf7089489e90f0afd0a942c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9340226388c66a7e090ebb00e91ed64a753b6c26"},{"version":"49367d8f1d9f26482cf7089489e90f0afd0a942c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9a18f7c5b071dce5e6939568829d40994866ab0"},{"version":"49367d8f1d9f26482cf7089489e90f0afd0a942c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"26fbe9772b8c459687930511444ce443011f86bf"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.29","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.29"},{"version":"4.4.302","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.4.*"},{"version":"4.9.300","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.228","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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