{"cve":"CVE-2023-52477","nvd":{"published":"2024-02-29T06:15:45.870","modified":"2026-06-17T06:42:48.747","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: hub: Guard against accesses to uninitialized BOS descriptors\n\nMany functions in drivers/usb/core/hub.c and drivers/usb/core/hub.h\naccess fields inside udev->bos without checking if it was allocated and\ninitialized. If usb_get_bos_descriptor() fails for whatever\nreason, udev->bos will be NULL and those accesses will result in a\ncrash:\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000018\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\nCPU: 5 PID: 17818 Comm: kworker/5:1 Tainted: G W 5.15.108-18910-gab0e1cb584e1 #1 <HASH:1f9e 1>\nHardware name: Google Kindred/Kindred, BIOS Google_Kindred.12672.413.0 02/03/2021\nWorkqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event\nRIP: 0010:hub_port_reset+0x193/0x788\nCode: 89 f7 e8 20 f7 15 00 48 8b 43 08 80 b8 96 03 00 00 03 75 36 0f b7 88 92 03 00 00 81 f9 10 03 00 00 72 27 48 8b 80 a8 03 00 00 <48> 83 78 18 00 74 19 48 89 df 48 8b 75 b0 ba 02 00 00 00 4c 89 e9\nRSP: 0018:ffffab740c53fcf8 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa1bc5f678000 RCX: 0000000000000310\nRDX: fffffffffffffdff RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: ffffa1be9655b840\nRBP: ffffab740c53fd70 R08: 00001b7d5edaa20c R09: ffffffffb005e060\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: ffffab740c53fd3e R14: 0000000000000032 R15: 0000000000000000\nFS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa1be96540000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000000000000018 CR3: 000000022e80c005 CR4: 00000000003706e0\nCall Trace:\nhub_event+0x73f/0x156e\n? hub_activate+0x5b7/0x68f\nprocess_one_work+0x1a2/0x487\nworker_thread+0x11a/0x288\nkthread+0x13a/0x152\n? process_one_work+0x487/0x487\n? kthread_associate_blkcg+0x70/0x70\nret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n\nFall back to a default behavior if the BOS descriptor isn't accessible\nand skip all the functionalities that depend on it: LPM support checks,\nSuper Speed capabilitiy checks, U1/U2 states setup.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-476"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/136f69a04e71ba3458d137aec3bb2ce1232c0289","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/241f230324337ed5eae3846a554fb6d15169872c","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/528f0ba9f7a4bc1b61c9b6eb591ff97ca37cac6b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ad3e9fd3632106696692232bf7ff88b9f7e1bc3","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e7346bfea56453e31b7421c1c17ca2fb9ed613d"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:46:54.846886191+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2023-52477","score":0.00233,"percentile":0.14259,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}