{"cve":"CVE-2023-52742","nvd":{"published":"2024-05-21T16:15:14.080","modified":"2026-06-17T06:43:28.567","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: USB: Fix wrong-direction WARNING in plusb.c\n\nThe syzbot fuzzer detected a bug in the plusb network driver: A\nzero-length control-OUT transfer was treated as a read instead of a\nwrite.  In modern kernels this error provokes a WARNING:\n\nusb 1-1: BOGUS control dir, pipe 80000280 doesn't match bRequestType c0\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4645 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411\nusb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 1 PID: 4645 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted\n6.2.0-rc6-syzkaller-00050-g9f266ccaa2f5 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google\n01/12/2023\nRIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411\n...\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n usb_start_wait_urb+0x101/0x4b0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:58\n usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:102 [inline]\n usb_control_msg+0x320/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:153\n __usbnet_read_cmd+0xb9/0x390 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:2010\n usbnet_read_cmd+0x96/0xf0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:2068\n pl_vendor_req drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:60 [inline]\n pl_set_QuickLink_features drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:75 [inline]\n pl_reset+0x2f/0xf0 drivers/net/usb/plusb.c:85\n usbnet_open+0xcc/0x5d0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:889\n __dev_open+0x297/0x4d0 net/core/dev.c:1417\n __dev_change_flags+0x587/0x750 net/core/dev.c:8530\n dev_change_flags+0x97/0x170 net/core/dev.c:8602\n devinet_ioctl+0x15a2/0x1d70 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1147\n inet_ioctl+0x33f/0x380 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:979\n sock_do_ioctl+0xcc/0x230 net/socket.c:1169\n sock_ioctl+0x1f8/0x680 net/socket.c:1286\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x197/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:856\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nThe fix is to call usbnet_write_cmd() instead of usbnet_read_cmd() and\nremove the USB_DIR_IN flag.","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-670"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d2cf3fae701646061e295815bb7588d2f3671cc","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1be271c52bf3554edcb8d124d1f8c7f777ee5727","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25141fb4119112f4ebf8f00cf52014abbc8020b1","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43379fcacea2dcee35d02efc9c8fe97807a503c9","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f69307f625904feed189008381fd83bd1a35b63"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:50:30.954589733+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2023-52742","score":0.00251,"percentile":0.16504,"date":"2026-10-31"},"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."]}