CVE-2024-44960: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: core: Check for unset descriptor Make sure the descriptor has been set before looking at maxpacket. This fixes a null pointer panic in this case. This may happen if the gadget doesn't properly set up the endpoint for the current speed, or the gadget descriptors are malformed and the descriptor for the speed/endpoint are not found. No current gadget driver is known to have this problem, but this may cause a hard-to-find bug during development of new gadgets.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 3.16.80 (fixed in 3.16.80); from 3.17, before 4.4.199 (fixed in 4.4.199); from 4.5, before 4.9.199 (fixed in 4.9.199); from 4.10, before 4.14.152 (fixed in 4.14.152); from 4.15, before 4.19.320 (fixed in 4.19.320); from 4.20, before 5.3.9 (fixed in 5.3.9); …

Published 2024-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.