# 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-2023-52781"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:31:00.242Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:27:05.236Z"
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-2023-52781"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52781.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52781"
title: "usb: config: fix iteration issue in 'usb_get_bos_descriptor()'"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: config: fix iteration issue in 'usb_get_bos_descriptor()'\n\nThe BOS descriptor defines a root descriptor and is the base descriptor for\naccessing a family of related descriptors.\n\nFunction 'usb_get_bos_descriptor()' encounters an iteration issue when\nskipping the 'USB_DT_DEVICE_CAPABILITY' descriptor type. This results in\nthe same descriptor being read repeatedly.\n\nTo address this issue, a 'goto' statement is introduced to ensure that the\npointer and the amount read is updated correctly. This ensures that the\nfunction iterates to the next descriptor instead of reading the same\ndescriptor repeatedly."
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