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CVE-2016-20022

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-06-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In the Linux kernel before 4.8, usb_parse_endpoint in drivers/usb/core/config.c does not validate the wMaxPacketSize field of an endpoint descriptor. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the supplier.

References

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aed9d65ac3278d4febd8665bd7db59ef53e825fe
• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1486322541-8206-8-git-send-email-w%401wt.eu/
• https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg144177.html
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/aed9d65ac3278d4febd8665bd7db59ef53e825fe
• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1486322541-8206-8-git-send-email-w%401wt.eu/
• https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg144177.html

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