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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-16147"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-14T19:33:46.303Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-14T20:05:14.713Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
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-2026-16147"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-16147.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-16147"
title: "it82xx2 USB device controller submits incomplete OUT transfer buffers, causing use-after-free and event-list corruption"
summary: "The ITE IT82xx2 USB device-controller driver (drivers/usb/udc/udc_it82xx2.c) mishandles multi-packet OUT transfers on non-control endpoints. In work_handler_out() the active transfer buffer is obtained with udc_buf_peek() (which does not dequeue it); when a full max-packet-size packet arrives but the buffer still has tailroom (the transfer is not yet complete), the pre-fix code both re-arms the endpoint to keep filling that same buf via work_handler_xfer_continue() and simultaneously hands the same, still-being-filled buffer to the upper stack with udc_submit_ep_event().\n\nBecause udc_submit_ep_event() transfers ownership of the buffer to the USB device stack (usbd_event_carrier() appends &buf-\u003enode to uds_ctx-\u003eep_events, after which the class handler processes and net_buf_unref()s it), the driver continues to DMA subsequent host-controlled OUT packets into a buffer the upper stack may already have freed and recycled — a use-after-free write. In addition, since the buffer was never dequeued, the completing packet runs udc_buf_get() on the same object and submits it a second time, appending &buf-\u003enode to the event slist twice (singly-linked-list corruption) and causing a double net_buf_unref().\n\nThe IT82xx2 is a USB peripheral controller, so the untrusted USB host controls OUT-transfer packetization and can force this path against any non-control OUT endpoint whose queued buffer exceeds one packet — an ordinary bulk/interrupt pattern. The driver and USB device stack run in kernel context above the external host, giving the host a device-side kernel heap-corruption primitive: a reliable denial of service and, because the written bytes are attacker-controlled, plausible corruption of adjacent net_buf pool memory. The vector is physical (USB attach). The fix defers submission until the buffer is completely filled and lets xfer_work_handler() drive continuation, so each OUT buffer is submitted to the upper stack exactly once."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.4.2"}],"vendor":"zephyrproject","product":"zephyr","packageName":"zephyr","collectionURL":"https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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