linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49937: media: mceusb: Use new usb_control_msg

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Message-ID: <2025061847-CVE-2022-49937-5d01@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:54:48 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49937: media: mceusb: Use new usb_control_msg_*() routines

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

media: mceusb: Use new usb_control_msg_*() routines

Automatic kernel fuzzing led to a WARN about invalid pipe direction in
the mceusb driver:

------------[ cut here ]------------
usb 6-1: BOGUS control dir, pipe 80000380 doesn't match bRequestType 40
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2465 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:410
usb_submit_urb+0x1326/0x1820 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:410
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 2465 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc4-00208-g69cb6c6556ad #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0x1326/0x1820 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:410
Code: 7c 24 40 e8 ac 23 91 fd 48 8b 7c 24 40 e8 b2 70 1b ff 45 89 e8
44 89 f1 4c 89 e2 48 89 c6 48 c7 c7 a0 30 a9 86 e8 48 07 11 02 <0f> 0b
e9 1c f0 ff ff e8 7e 23 91 fd 0f b6 1d 63 22 83 05 31 ff 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc900032becf0 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881100f3058 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffffc90004961000 RSI: ffff888114c6d580 RDI: fffff52000657d90
RBP: ffff888105ad90f0 R08: ffffffff812c3638 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000005 R11: ffffed1023504ef1 R12: ffff888105ad9000
R13: 0000000000000040 R14: 0000000080000380 R15: ffff88810ba96500
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88811a800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffe810bda58 CR3: 000000010b720000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
usb_start_wait_urb+0x101/0x4c0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:58
usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:102 [inline]
usb_control_msg+0x31c/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:153
mceusb_gen1_init drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c:1431 [inline]
mceusb_dev_probe+0x258e/0x33f0 drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c:1807

The reason for the warning is clear enough; the driver sends an
unusual read request on endpoint 0 but does not set the USB_DIR_IN bit
in the bRequestType field.

More importantly, the whole situation can be avoided and the driver
simplified by converting it over to the relatively new
usb_control_msg_recv() and usb_control_msg_send() routines.  That's
what this fix does.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49937 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 5.10.142 with commit 587f793c64d99d92be8ef01c4c69d885a3f2edb6
	Fixed in 5.15.66 with commit 75913c562f5ba4cf397d835c63f443879167c6f6
	Fixed in 5.19.8 with commit d69c738ac9310b56e84c51c8f09fc018a8291bc6
	Fixed in 6.0 with commit 608e58a0f4617977178131f5f68a3fce1d3f5316

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-49937
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/587f793c64d99d92be8ef01c4c69d885a3f2edb6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75913c562f5ba4cf397d835c63f443879167c6f6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d69c738ac9310b56e84c51c8f09fc018a8291bc6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/608e58a0f4617977178131f5f68a3fce1d3f5316