CVE-2025-22052 staging: gpib: Fix Oops after disconnect in ni_usb

What is CVE-2025-22052?

CVE-2025-22052 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Apr 2025. 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:

staging: gpib: Fix Oops after disconnect in ni_usb

If the usb dongle is disconnected subsequent calls to the driver cause a NULL dereference Oops as the bus_interface is set to NULL on disconnect.

This problem was introduced by setting usb_dev from the bus_interface for dev_xxx messages.

Previously bus_interface was checked for NULL only in the the functions directly calling usb_fill_bulk_urb or usb_control_msg.

Check for valid bus_interface on all interface entry points and return -ENODEV if it is NULL.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22052?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-22052?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2025-22052 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22052 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-22052, GHSA-gjvw-2pj9-fgr6, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-22052, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22052.