# CVE-2021-47582: USB: core: Make do_proc_control() and do_proc_bulk() killable

> A local attacker can cause a denial of service by triggering an uninterruptible wait in the Linux kernel USB core via specific ioctls.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 19 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47582, GHSA-rg2r-6xmq-h33r, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2021-47582, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-47582

## What is CVE-2021-47582?

CVE-2021-47582 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

USB: core: Make do_proc_control() and do_proc_bulk() killable

The USBDEVFS_CONTROL and USBDEVFS_BULK ioctls invoke
usb_start_wait_urb(), which contains an uninterruptible wait with a
user-specified timeout value.  If timeout value is very large and the
device being accessed does not respond in a reasonable amount of time,
the kernel will complain about "Task X blocked for more than N
seconds", as found in testing by syzbot:

INFO: task syz-executor.0:8700 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted 5.14.0-rc7-syzkaller #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz-executor.0  state:D stack:23192 pid: 8700 ppid:  8455 flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:4681 [inline]
 __schedule+0xc07/0x11f0 kernel/sched/core.c:5938
 schedule+0x14b/0x210 kernel/sched/core.c:6017
 schedule_timeout+0x98/0x2f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1857
 do_wait_for_common+0x2da/0x480 kernel/sched/completion.c:85
 __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:106 [inline]
 wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:117 [inline]
 wait_for_completion_timeout+0x46/0x60 kernel/sched/completion.c:157
 usb_start_wait_urb+0x167/0x550 drivers/usb/core/message.c:63
 do_proc_bulk+0x978/0x1080 drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1236
 proc_bulk drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1273 [inline]
 usbdev_do_ioctl drivers/usb/core/devio.c:2547 [inline]
 usbdev_ioctl+0x3441/0x6b10 drivers/usb/core/devio.c:2713
...

To fix this problem, this patch replaces usbfs's calls to
usb_control_msg() and usb_bulk_msg() with special-purpose code that
does essentially the same thing (as recommended in the comment for
usb_start_wait_urb()), except that it always uses a killable wait and
it uses GFP_KERNEL rather than GFP_NOIO.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-47582?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-47582?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2021-47582 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47582 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

- [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-47582 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-47582 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-47582 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47582/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-47582/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47582
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47582
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-47582

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