CVE-2026-43428
Published: May 8, 2026
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: core: Limit the length of unkillable synchronous timeouts The usb_control_msg(), usb_bulk_msg(), and usb_interrupt_msg() APIs in usbcore allow unlimited timeout durations. And since they use uninterruptible waits, this leaves open the possibility of hanging a task for an indefinitely long time, with no way to kill it short of unplugging the target device. To prevent this sort of problem, enforce a maximum limit on the length of these unkillable timeouts. The limit chosen here, somewhat arbitrarily, is 60 seconds. On many systems (although not all) this is short enough to avoid triggering the kernel's hung-task detector. In addition, clear up the ambiguity of negative timeout values by treating them the same as 0, i.e., using the maximum allowed timeout.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 4e86f5b79e62ded7e3c3ebd688cf5775e618148aaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 06d2bbc4c66c6b0e8a43728c4949026026a5be67affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 6c62935670acdbb7687ced20494923b66fbb0367affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 659c0c7d50a4b0f6aa197c4c098cfd91daf63862affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 24b31a227f679a942d820840a4dea7f0c09a387f+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.12unaffected 0 - < 2.6.12unaffected 5.10.253 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.203 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.167 - <= 6.1.*+5 more versions |
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