Vulnerability · Published Feb 27, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2025-21708net: usb: rtl8150: enable basic endpoint checking

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 13% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 86.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: rtl8150: enable basic endpoint checking Syzkaller reports [1] encountering a common issue of utilizing a wrong usb endpoint type during URB submitting stage. This, in turn, triggers a warning shown below. For now, enable simple endpoint checking (specifically, bulk and interrupt eps, testing control one is not essential) to mitigate the issue with a view to do other related cosmetic changes later, if they are necessary. [1] Syzkaller report: usb 1-1: BOGUS urb xfer, pipe 3 != type 1 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2586 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:503 usb_submit_urb+0xe4b/0x1730 driv> Modules linked in: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2586 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted 6.11.0-rc4-syzkaller-00069-gfc88bb11617> Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/06/2024 RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0xe4b/0x1730 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:503 Code: 84 3c 02 00 00 e8 05 e4 fc fc 4c 89 ef e8 fd 25 d7 fe 45 89 e0 89 e9 4c 89 f2 48 8> RSP: 0018:ffffc9000441f740 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888112487a00 RCX: ffffffff811a99a9 RDX: ffff88810df6ba80 RSI: ffffffff811a99b6 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: ffff8881023bf0a8 R14: ffff888112452a20 R15: ffff888112487a7c FS: 00007fc04eea5740(0000) GS:ffff8881f6300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f0a1de9f870 CR3: 000000010dbd0000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> rtl8150_open+0x300/0xe30 drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c:733 __dev_open+0x2d4/0x4e0 net/core/dev.c:1474 __dev_change_flags+0x561/0x720 net/core/dev.c:8838 dev_change_flags+0x8f/0x160 net/core/dev.c:8910 devinet_ioctl+0x127a/0x1f10 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1177 inet_ioctl+0x3aa/0x3f0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1003 sock_do_ioctl+0x116/0x280 net/socket.c:1222 sock_ioctl+0x22e/0x6c0 net/socket.c:1341 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:893 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x220 fs/ioctl.c:893 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7fc04ef73d49 ... This change has not been tested on real hardware.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.129-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21708
Debian:13linux6.12.13-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21708
Debian:14linux6.12.13-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-140.150USN-7510-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-140.150UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-64.67UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1084.91USN-7510-7
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1084.91UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1032.34UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1032.34~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1089.98UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1089.98USN-7510-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1034.39UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.116.11.0-1015.15~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1034.39~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1089.98.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidia6.8.0-1022.23UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1083.92UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1083.92USN-7511-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1033.35UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.116.11.0-1015.15~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1033.35~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1081.87USN-7511-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1081.87UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1028.32UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1066.74USN-7510-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1066.74UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1015.17UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.116.11.0-26.26~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-64.67~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1076.79UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1076.79USN-7510-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1029.29UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1029.29~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1079.85USN-7510-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1079.85UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1080.85UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1080.85USN-7510-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-140.150UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-140.150USN-7510-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-64.67.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.116.11.0-1014.15~24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-64.67.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1078.79USN-7510-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1078.79UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1031.34UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.116.11.0-1010.10UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1031.34~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1031.34.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1037.37UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1037.37USN-7510-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1008.8UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1026.26USN-7510-7
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1026.26UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.116.11.0-1022.22UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.86.8.0-1031.31UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1081.87UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1081.87USN-7510-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1029.30UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1029.30~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1078.81USN-7510-7
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1078.81UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1031.35UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-64.67~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1017.18UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1050.54UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21708

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before 431be4f78220d34ce21d67a6b843b7ca81bd82e91da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before 8f78a2b9ed4cb1e62c60d0a8905d9a37bc18c20d1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before d42168f109f96b5d18812a789086015a435ee6671da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before e10b392a7495a5dbbb25247e2c17d380d98992631da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before 3c706829ceb6e347bd4ddfd17f1d3048acd69da21da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before f395b7efcee8df54309eb2d4a624ef13f5d88b661da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before c843515ad2be7349dd6b60e5fd299d0da0b8458b1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 – before 90b7f2961798793275b4844348619b622f983907
Linux Linux 2.6.12

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