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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50297" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:45:53.146Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:16:35.429Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z" 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-2022-50297" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50297.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50297" title: "wifi: ath9k: verify the expected usb_endpoints are present" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: ath9k: verify the expected usb_endpoints are present\n\nThe bug arises when a USB device claims to be an ATH9K but doesn't\nhave the expected endpoints. (In this case there was an interrupt\nendpoint where the driver expected a bulk endpoint.) The kernel\nneeds to be able to handle such devices without getting an internal error.\n\nusb 1-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1\nWARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 500 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:493 usb_submit_urb+0xce2/0x1430 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:493\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 3 PID: 500 Comm: kworker/3:2 Not tainted 5.10.135-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014\nWorkqueue: events request_firmware_work_func\nRIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0xce2/0x1430 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:493\nCall Trace:\n ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_rx_urbs drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:908 [inline]\n ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_urbs+0x75e/0x1010 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1019\n ath9k_hif_usb_dev_init drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1109 [inline]\n ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0x142/0x530 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1242\n request_firmware_work_func+0x12e/0x240 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1097\n process_one_work+0x9af/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2279\n worker_thread+0x61d/0x12f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2425\n kthread+0x3b4/0x4a0 kernel/kthread.c:313\n ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:299\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"932f0a5e829fb0b823f96d7fa9a0f4fc96660b77"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d008a202a0528a058bac658e657c010ce8534f4a"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d64436af0bc3c9e579be761d7684f228fb95f3bb"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ca57748593ddd8e46d033fbaeb9d01ec533a6bfe"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1824ccabee5445347b83642e4087cc2eca070343"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c319196a0e34ed2e66d6f876f58d8d446335c2a7"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2d2eccf52ea0215c8d386b62af0b5fd4fc122bd5"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b7e6d681e00a96cde2b32a15ffa70e1be2e3209"},{"version":"fb9987d0f748c983bb795a86f47522313f701a08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16ef02bad239f11f322df8425d302be62f0443ce"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.35","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.35"},{"version":"4.9.337","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.303","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","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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