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        "cveId": "CVE-2023-53761",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-12-08T01:18:04.280Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-12-08T01:19:22.571Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:51:10.341Z"
    },
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: usbtmc: Fix direction for 0-length ioctl control messages\n\nThe syzbot fuzzer found a problem in the usbtmc driver: When a user\nsubmits an ioctl for a 0-length control transfer, the driver does not\ncheck that the direction is set to OUT:\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nusb 3-1: BOGUS control dir, pipe 80000b80 doesn't match bRequestType fd\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5100 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411 usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 PID: 5100 Comm: syz-executor428 Not tainted 6.3.0-syzkaller-12049-g58390c8ce1bd #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/14/2023\nRIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411\nCode: 7c 24 40 e8 1b 13 5c fb 48 8b 7c 24 40 e8 21 1d f0 fe 45 89 e8 44 89 f1 4c 89 e2 48 89 c6 48 c7 c7 e0 b5 fc 8a e8 19 c8 23 fb <0f> 0b e9 9f ee ff ff e8 ed 12 5c fb 0f b6 1d 12 8a 3c 08 31 ff 41\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90003d2fb00 EFLAGS: 00010282\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880789e9058 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: ffff888029593b80 RSI: ffffffff814c1447 RDI: 0000000000000001\nRBP: ffff88801ea742f8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88802915e528\nR13: 00000000000000fd R14: 0000000080000b80 R15: ffff8880222b3100\nFS:  0000555556ca63c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f9ef4d18150 CR3: 0000000073e5b000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n usb_start_wait_urb+0x101/0x4b0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:58\n usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:102 [inline]\n usb_control_msg+0x320/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:153\n usbtmc_ioctl_request drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c:1954 [inline]\n usbtmc_ioctl+0x1b3d/0x2840 drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c:2097\n\nTo fix this, we must override the direction in the bRequestType field\nof the control request structure when the length is 0."
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