Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2022-49937 json

media: mceusb: Use new usb_control_msg_*() routines

published 2025-06-18 16 mo ago modified 2026-11-05 3 d ago also EUVD-2022-55191

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.10.142, 5.15.66, 5.19.8, 6.0
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.19.11-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49937

  • linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-209.220
  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-147.164
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-57.63
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.15.0-1154.167
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1100.108
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1027.31
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1103.112
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1026.33

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49937

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.170.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.170.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +6 more 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2
  • kernel-zfcpdump SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, Manager Server 4.3 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2
  • kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2
  • kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.170.2.150400.24.86.2
  • kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.124.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:02537-1SUSE-SU-2025:02334-1SUSE-SU-2025:02322-1SUSE-SU-2025:02321-1SUSE-SU-2025:02320-1SUSE-SU-2025:02312-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-49937 updated cvss 4.1

kernel: media: mceusb: Use new usb_control_msg_*() routines

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
3 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.