Vulnerability CVE-2023-22999
Published: 2023-02-28

Description:
In the Linux kernel before 5.16.3, drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-qcom.c misinterprets the dwc3_qcom_create_urs_usb_platdev return value (expects it to be NULL in the error case, whereas it is actually an error pointer).

 References:
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.3
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b52fe2dbb3e655eb1483000adfab68a219549e13
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