CVE-2022-49051: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: aqc111: Fix out-of-bounds accesses in RX fixup aqc111_rx_fixup() contains several out-of-bounds accesses that can be triggered by a malicious (or defective) USB device, in particular: - The metadata array (desc_offset..desc_offset+2*pkt_count) can be out of bounds, causing OOB reads and (on big-endian systems) OOB endianness flips. - A packet can overlap the metadata array, causing a later OOB endianness flip to corrupt data used by a cloned SKB that has already been handed off into the network stack. - A packet SKB can be constructed whose tail is far beyond its end, causing out-of-bounds heap data to be considered part of the SKB's data. Found doing variant analysis. Tested it with another driver (ax88179_178a), since I don't have a aqc111 device to test it, but the code looks very similar.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.0, before 5.4.190 (fixed in 5.4.190); from 5.5, before 5.10.112 (fixed in 5.10.112); from 5.11, before 5.15.35 (fixed in 5.15.35); from 5.16, before 5.17.4 (fixed in 5.17.4); version 5.18 only

Published 2025-02-26. Last modified 2026-08-13.