{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2025-12-08T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: USB: usbtmc: Fix direction for 0-length ioctl control messages",
    "id" : "2419892",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2419892"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.0",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-672",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nUSB: usbtmc: Fix direction for 0-length ioctl control messages\nThe syzbot fuzzer found a problem in the usbtmc driver: When a user\nsubmits an ioctl for a 0-length control transfer, the driver does not\ncheck that the direction is set to OUT:\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nusb 3-1: BOGUS control dir, pipe 80000b80 doesn't match bRequestType fd\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5100 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411 usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 PID: 5100 Comm: syz-executor428 Not tainted 6.3.0-syzkaller-12049-g58390c8ce1bd #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/14/2023\nRIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411\nCode: 7c 24 40 e8 1b 13 5c fb 48 8b 7c 24 40 e8 21 1d f0 fe 45 89 e8 44 89 f1 4c 89 e2 48 89 c6 48 c7 c7 e0 b5 fc 8a e8 19 c8 23 fb <0f> 0b e9 9f ee ff ff e8 ed 12 5c fb 0f b6 1d 12 8a 3c 08 31 ff 41\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90003d2fb00 EFLAGS: 00010282\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880789e9058 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: ffff888029593b80 RSI: ffffffff814c1447 RDI: 0000000000000001\nRBP: ffff88801ea742f8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88802915e528\nR13: 00000000000000fd R14: 0000000080000b80 R15: ffff8880222b3100\nFS:  0000555556ca63c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f9ef4d18150 CR3: 0000000073e5b000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n<TASK>\nusb_start_wait_urb+0x101/0x4b0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:58\nusb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:102 [inline]\nusb_control_msg+0x320/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:153\nusbtmc_ioctl_request drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c:1954 [inline]\nusbtmc_ioctl+0x1b3d/0x2840 drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c:2097\nTo fix this, we must override the direction in the bRequestType field\nof the control request structure when the length is 0.", "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s USB Test and Measurement Class (usbtmc) driver. The driver did not properly validate the direction bit when handling ioctl calls for control messages with a length of zero. Under these circumstances, an incorrect direction can be submitted, leading to mismatches between the expected control direction and the bRequestType field." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-05-22T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:3138",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-553.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:2394",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:2394",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53761\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53761\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025120844-CVE-2023-53761-ea1d@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-53761",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}