CVE-2023-54213 USB: sisusbvga: Add endpoint checks
A malicious USB device can trigger a kernel warning and potential denial of service in the sisusbvga driver due to missing endpoint checks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2023-54213?
CVE-2023-54213 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: sisusbvga: Add endpoint checks
The syzbot fuzzer was able to provoke a WARNING from the sisusbvga driver:
------------[ cut here ]------------ usb 1-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 26 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504 usb_submit_urb+0xed6/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 26 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc5-syzkaller-00199-g5af6ce704936 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/12/2023 Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0xed6/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504 Code: 7c 24 18 e8 6c 50 80 fb 48 8b 7c 24 18 e8 62 1a 01 ff 41 89 d8 44 89 e1 4c 89 ea 48 89 c6 48 c7 c7 60 b1 fa 8a e8 84 b0 be 03 <0f> 0b e9 58 f8 ff ff e8 3e 50 80 fb 48 81 c5 c0 05 00 00 e9 84 f7 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a1ed18 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff888012783a80 RSI: ffffffff816680ec RDI: fffff52000143d95 RBP: ffff888079020000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000080000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000003 R13: ffff888017d33370 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: ffff888021213600 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00005592753a60b0 CR3: 0000000022899000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> sisusb_bulkout_msg drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.c:224 [inline] sisusb_send_bulk_msg.constprop.0+0x904/0x1230 drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.c:379 sisusb_send_bridge_packet drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.c:567 [inline] sisusb_do_init_gfxdevice drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.c:2077 [inline] sisusb_init_gfxdevice+0x87b/0x4000 drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.c:2177 sisusb_probe+0x9cd/0xbe2 drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusbvga.c:2869 ...
The problem was caused by the fact that the driver does not check whether the endpoints it uses are actually present and have the appropriate types. This can be fixed by adding a simple check of the endpoints.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-54213?
How do I fix CVE-2023-54213?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2023-54213 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54213 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-54213, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54213, GHSA-hpgq-f92h-77q5, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54213.