# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53548"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:16:55.612Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:47:06.180Z"
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-2023-53548"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53548.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53548"
title: "net: usbnet: Fix WARNING in usbnet_start_xmit/usb_submit_urb"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: usbnet: Fix WARNING in usbnet_start_xmit/usb_submit_urb\n\nThe syzbot fuzzer identified a problem in the usbnet driver:\n\nusb 1-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 754 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504 usb_submit_urb+0xed6/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 PID: 754 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7-syzkaller-00014-g692b7dc87ca6 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023\nWorkqueue: mld mld_ifc_work\nRIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0xed6/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504\nCode: 7c 24 18 e8 2c b4 5b fb 48 8b 7c 24 18 e8 42 07 f0 fe 41 89 d8 44 89 e1 4c 89 ea 48 89 c6 48 c7 c7 a0 c9 fc 8a e8 5a 6f 23 fb \u003c0f\u003e 0b e9 58 f8 ff ff e8 fe b3 5b fb 48 81 c5 c0 05 00 00 e9 84 f7\nRSP: 0018:ffffc9000463f568 EFLAGS: 00010086\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: ffff88801eb28000 RSI: ffffffff814c03b7 RDI: 0000000000000001\nRBP: ffff8881443b7190 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000003\nR13: ffff88802a77cb18 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: ffff888018262500\nFS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000556a99c15a18 CR3: 0000000028c71000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n usbnet_start_xmit+0xfe5/0x2190 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1453\n __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4918 [inline]\n netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4932 [inline]\n xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3578 [inline]\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x187/0x700 net/core/dev.c:3594\n...\n\nThis bug is caused by the fact that usbnet trusts the bulk endpoint\naddresses its probe routine receives in the driver_info structure, and\nit does not check to see that these endpoints actually exist and have\nthe expected type and directions.\n\nThe fix is simply to add such a check."
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