CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49968
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362, CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ieee802154/adf7242: defer destroy_workqueue call
There is a possible race condition (use-after-free) like below
(FREE) | (USE)
adf7242_remove | adf7242_channel
cancel_delayed_work_sync |
destroy_workqueue (1) | adf7242_cmd_rx
| mod_delayed_work (2)
|
The root cause for this race is that the upper layer (ieee802154) is
unaware of this detaching event and the function adf7242_channel can
be called without any checks.
To fix this, we can add a flag write at the beginning of adf7242_remove
and add flag check in adf7242_channel. Or we can just defer the
destructive operation like other commit 3e0588c291d6 ("hamradio: defer
ax25 kfree after unregister_netdev") which let the
ieee802154_unregister_hw() to handle the synchronization. This patch
takes the second option.
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Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.17.19 < 4.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.18.1 < 4.19.258)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.213)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.142)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.66)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.8)
• linux linux kernel 4.18
• linux linux kernel 6.0
Related
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15f3b89bd521d5770d36a61fc04a77c293138ba6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23a29932715ca43bceb2eae1bdb770995afe7271 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f8558c5c642c62c450c98c99b7d18a709fff485 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afe7116f6d3b888778ed6d95e3cf724767b9aedf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bed12d7531df1417fc92c691999ff95e03835008 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dede80aaf01f4b6e8657d23726cb4a3da226ec4c Patch