# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52477"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-29T05:43:10.088Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:28:05.297Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
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-2023-52477"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52477.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52477"
title: "usb: hub: Guard against accesses to uninitialized BOS descriptors"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: hub: Guard against accesses to uninitialized BOS descriptors\n\nMany functions in drivers/usb/core/hub.c and drivers/usb/core/hub.h\naccess fields inside udev-\u003ebos without checking if it was allocated and\ninitialized. If usb_get_bos_descriptor() fails for whatever\nreason, udev-\u003ebos will be NULL and those accesses will result in a\ncrash:\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\nCPU: 5 PID: 17818 Comm: kworker/5:1 Tainted: G W 5.15.108-18910-gab0e1cb584e1 #1 \u003cHASH:1f9e 1\u003e\nHardware name: Google Kindred/Kindred, BIOS Google_Kindred.12672.413.0 02/03/2021\nWorkqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event\nRIP: 0010:hub_port_reset+0x193/0x788\nCode: 89 f7 e8 20 f7 15 00 48 8b 43 08 80 b8 96 03 00 00 03 75 36 0f b7 88 92 03 00 00 81 f9 10 03 00 00 72 27 48 8b 80 a8 03 00 00 \u003c48\u003e 83 78 18 00 74 19 48 89 df 48 8b 75 b0 ba 02 00 00 00 4c 89 e9\nRSP: 0018:ffffab740c53fcf8 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa1bc5f678000 RCX: 0000000000000310\nRDX: fffffffffffffdff RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: ffffa1be9655b840\nRBP: ffffab740c53fd70 R08: 00001b7d5edaa20c R09: ffffffffb005e060\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: ffffab740c53fd3e R14: 0000000000000032 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa1be96540000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000018 CR3: 000000022e80c005 CR4: 00000000003706e0\nCall Trace:\nhub_event+0x73f/0x156e\n? hub_activate+0x5b7/0x68f\nprocess_one_work+0x1a2/0x487\nworker_thread+0x11a/0x288\nkthread+0x13a/0x152\n? process_one_work+0x487/0x487\n? kthread_associate_blkcg+0x70/0x70\nret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n\nFall back to a default behavior if the BOS descriptor isn't accessible\nand skip all the functionalities that depend on it: LPM support checks,\nSuper Speed capabilitiy checks, U1/U2 states setup."
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