# 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-2026-45923"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:17:42.312Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-27T12:17:42.312Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-45923"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45923.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45923"
title: "net: usb: catc: enable basic endpoint checking"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: usb: catc: enable basic endpoint checking\n\ncatc_probe() fills three URBs with hardcoded endpoint pipes without\nverifying the endpoint descriptors:\n\n  - usb_sndbulkpipe(usbdev, 1) and usb_rcvbulkpipe(usbdev, 1) for TX/RX\n  - usb_rcvintpipe(usbdev, 2) for interrupt status\n\nA malformed USB device can present these endpoints with transfer types\nthat differ from what the driver assumes.\n\nAdd a catc_usb_ep enum for endpoint numbers, replacing magic constants\nthroughout. Add usb_check_bulk_endpoints() and usb_check_int_endpoints()\ncalls after usb_set_interface() to verify endpoint types before use,\nrejecting devices with mismatched descriptors at probe time.\n\nSimilar to\n- commit 90b7f2961798 (\"net: usb: rtl8150: enable basic endpoint checking\")\nwhich fixed the issue in rtl8150."
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