CVE-2026-23312 PUBLISHED

net: usb: kaweth: validate USB endpoints

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.01.2026 Published: 25.03.2026 Updated: 25.03.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: usb: kaweth: validate USB endpoints

The kaweth driver should validate that the device it is probing has the proper number and types of USB endpoints it is expecting before it binds to it. If a malicious device were to not have the same urbs the driver will crash later on when it blindly accesses these endpoints.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 7c7ebf5e45d2504d92ea294ac3828d58586491df (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 72f90f481c6a059680b9b976695d4cfb04fba1f3 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to f33e80d195a003b384620ee240f69092b519146b (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 2795fc06e7652c0ba299d936c584d5e08b6b57a1 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 0aae18e4638a7c1c579df92bc6edc36cedfaaa8c (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 4b063c002ca759d1b299988ee23f564c9609c875 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.167 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.130 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.77 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.17 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.7 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0-rc2 to * (incl.)

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