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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52894" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-08-21T06:10:34.120Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:35:02.622Z" 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-2023-52894" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52894.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52894" title: "usb: gadget: f_ncm: fix potential NULL ptr deref in ncm_bitrate()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: f_ncm: fix potential NULL ptr deref in ncm_bitrate()\n\nIn Google internal bug 265639009 we've received an (as yet) unreproducible\ncrash report from an aarch64 GKI 5.10.149-android13 running device.\n\nAFAICT the source code is at:\n https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/refs/tags/ASB-2022-12-05_13-5.10\n\nThe call stack is:\n ncm_close() -\u003e ncm_notify() -\u003e ncm_do_notify()\nwith the crash at:\n ncm_do_notify+0x98/0x270\nCode: 79000d0b b9000a6c f940012a f9400269 (b9405d4b)\n\nWhich I believe disassembles to (I don't know ARM assembly, but it looks sane enough to me...):\n\n // halfword (16-bit) store presumably to event-\u003ewLength (at offset 6 of struct usb_cdc_notification)\n 0B 0D 00 79 strh w11, [x8, #6]\n\n // word (32-bit) store presumably to req-\u003eLength (at offset 8 of struct usb_request)\n 6C 0A 00 B9 str w12, [x19, #8]\n\n // x10 (NULL) was read here from offset 0 of valid pointer x9\n // IMHO we're reading 'cdev-\u003egadget' and getting NULL\n // gadget is indeed at offset 0 of struct usb_composite_dev\n 2A 01 40 F9 ldr x10, [x9]\n\n // loading req-\u003ebuf pointer, which is at offset 0 of struct usb_request\n 69 02 40 F9 ldr x9, [x19]\n\n // x10 is null, crash, appears to be attempt to read cdev-\u003egadget-\u003emax_speed\n 4B 5D 40 B9 ldr w11, [x10, #0x5c]\n\nwhich seems to line up with ncm_do_notify() case NCM_NOTIFY_SPEED code fragment:\n\n event-\u003ewLength = cpu_to_le16(8);\n req-\u003elength = NCM_STATUS_BYTECOUNT;\n\n /* SPEED_CHANGE data is up/down speeds in bits/sec */\n data = req-\u003ebuf + sizeof *event;\n data[0] = cpu_to_le32(ncm_bitrate(cdev-\u003egadget));\n\nMy analysis of registers and NULL ptr deref crash offset\n (Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000000000005c)\nheavily suggests that the crash is due to 'cdev-\u003egadget' being NULL when executing:\n data[0] = cpu_to_le32(ncm_bitrate(cdev-\u003egadget));\nwhich calls:\n ncm_bitrate(NULL)\nwhich then calls:\n gadget_is_superspeed(NULL)\nwhich reads\n ((struct usb_gadget *)NULL)-\u003emax_speed\nand hits a panic.\n\nAFAICT, if I'm counting right, the offset of max_speed is indeed 0x5C.\n(remember there's a GKI KABI reservation of 16 bytes in struct work_struct)\n\nIt's not at all clear to me how this is all supposed to work...\nbut returning 0 seems much better than panic-ing..." affected: 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