CVE-2022-25258: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.10. The USB Gadget subsystem lacks certain validation of interface OS descriptor requests (ones with a large array index and ones associated with NULL function pointer retrieval). Memory corruption might occur.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 35 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.16.10 (fixed in 5.16.10)
• Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h300s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700s Firmware: affected versions not specified

Published 2022-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.