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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50704"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:55:19.295Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:23:52.960Z"
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-2022-50704"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50704.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50704"
title: "USB: gadget: Fix use-after-free during usb config switch"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: gadget: Fix use-after-free during usb config switch\n\nIn the process of switching USB config from rndis to other config,\nif the hardware does not support the -\u003epullup callback, or the\nhardware encounters a low probability fault, both of them may cause\nthe -\u003epullup callback to fail, which will then cause a system panic\n(use after free).\n\nThe gadget drivers sometimes need to be unloaded regardless of the\nhardware's behavior.\n\nAnalysis as follows:\n=======================================================================\n(1) write /config/usb_gadget/g1/UDC \"none\"\n\ngether_disconnect+0x2c/0x1f8\nrndis_disable+0x4c/0x74\ncomposite_disconnect+0x74/0xb0\nconfigfs_composite_disconnect+0x60/0x7c\nusb_gadget_disconnect+0x70/0x124\nusb_gadget_unregister_driver+0xc8/0x1d8\ngadget_dev_desc_UDC_store+0xec/0x1e4\n\n(2) rm /config/usb_gadget/g1/configs/b.1/f1\n\nrndis_deregister+0x28/0x54\nrndis_free+0x44/0x7c\nusb_put_function+0x14/0x1c\nconfig_usb_cfg_unlink+0xc4/0xe0\nconfigfs_unlink+0x124/0x1c8\nvfs_unlink+0x114/0x1dc\n\n(3) rmdir /config/usb_gadget/g1/functions/rndis.gs4\n\npanic+0x1fc/0x3d0\ndo_page_fault+0xa8/0x46c\ndo_mem_abort+0x3c/0xac\nel1_sync_handler+0x40/0x78\n0xffffff801138f880\nrndis_close+0x28/0x34\neth_stop+0x74/0x110\ndev_close_many+0x48/0x194\nrollback_registered_many+0x118/0x814\nunregister_netdev+0x20/0x30\ngether_cleanup+0x1c/0x38\nrndis_attr_release+0xc/0x14\nkref_put+0x74/0xb8\nconfigfs_rmdir+0x314/0x374\n\nIf gadget-\u003eops-\u003epullup() return an error, function rndis_close() will be\ncalled, then it will causes a use-after-free problem.\n======================================================================="
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0a55187a1ec8c03d0619e7ce41d10fdc39cff036","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"30e926aa835ac2e6ad05822e4cb75833feb0d99f"},{"version":"0a55187a1ec8c03d0619e7ce41d10fdc39cff036","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"99a58ac42d9b6911834b0224b6782aea0c311346"},{"version":"0a55187a1ec8c03d0619e7ce41d10fdc39cff036","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"afdc12887f2b2ecf20d065a7d81ad29824155083"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"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"}]

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