CVE-2024-38565EPSS p53.8%
CVE-2024-38565CVE-2024-38565
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ar5523: enable proper endpoint verification
Syzkaller reports [1] hitting a warning about an endpoint in use
not having an expected type to it.
Fix the issue by checking for the existence of all proper
endpoints with their according types intact.
Sadly, this patch has not been tested on real hardware.
[1] Syzkaller report:
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usb 1-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3643 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504 usb_submit_urb+0xed6/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:504
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ar5523_cmd+0x41b/0x780 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c:275
ar5523_cmd_read drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c:302 [inline]
ar5523_host_available drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c:1376 [inline]
ar5523_probe+0x14b0/0x1d10 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c:1655
usb_probe_interface+0x30f/0x7f0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
call_driver_probe drivers/
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.74% probability of exploitation · percentile 53.8% · 2026-10-17T12:00:28Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-15 |