High severity · published Feb 26, 2025
CVE-2022-49470
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btmtksdio: fix use-after-free at btmtksdio_recv_event We should not access skb buffer data anymore…
8.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: btmtksdio: fix use-after-free at btmtksdio_recv_event
We should not access skb buffer data anymore after hci_recv_frame was
called.
[ 39.634809] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in btmtksdio_recv_event+0x1b0
[ 39.634855] Read of size 1 at addr ffffff80cf28a60d by task kworker
[ 39.634962] Call trace:
[ 39.634974] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3b8
[ 39.634999] show_stack+0x20/0x2c
[ 39.635016] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x78
[ 39.635040] print_address_description+0x70/0x2f0
[ 39.635062] kasan_report+0x154/0x194
[ 39.635079] __asan_report_load1_noabort+0x44/0x50
[ 39.635099] btmtksdio_recv_event+0x1b0/0x1c4
[ 39.635129] btmtksdio_txrx_work+0x6cc/0xac4
[ 39.635157] process_one_work+0x560/0xc5c
[ 39.635177] worker_thread+0x7ec/0xcc0
[ 39.635195] kthread+0x2d0/0x3d0
[ 39.635215] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[ 39.635247] Allocated by task 0:
[ 39.635260] (stack is not available)
[ 39.635281] Freed by task 2392:
[ 39.635295] kasan_save_stack+0x38/0x68
[ 39.635319] kasan_set_track+0x28/0x3c
[ 39.635338] kasan_set_free_info+0x28/0x4c
[ 39.635357] ____kasan_slab_free+0x104/0x150
[ 39.635374] __kasan_slab_free+0x18/0x28
[ 39.635391] slab_free_freelist_hook+0x114/0x248
[ 39.635410] kfree+0xf8/0x2b4
[ 39.635427] skb_free_head+0x58/0x98
[ 39.635447] skb_release_data+0x2f4/0x410
[ 39.635464] skb_release_all+0x50/0x60
[ 39.635481] kfree_skb+0xc8/0x25c
[ 39.635498] hci_event_packet+0x894/0xca4 [bluetooth]
[ 39.635721] hci_rx_work+0x1c8/0x68c [bluetooth]
[ 39.635925] process_one_work+0x560/0xc5c
[ 39.635951] worker_thread+0x7ec/0xcc0
[ 39.635970] kthread+0x2d0/0x3d0
[ 39.635990] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[ 39.636021] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffffff80cf28a600
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
[ 39.636039] The buggy address is located 13 bytes inside of
512-byte region [ffffff80cf28a600, ffffff80cf28a800)
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 24% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
5.2 before 5.15.54; 5.16 before 5.17.14; 5.18 before 5.18.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49470
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49470
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01c6a899fa6be4f4cbf60c4f44f0f6691155415f
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02ba31e09a26e8cd4582ac8e6163d80284997727
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fab6361c4ba17d1b43a991bef4238a3c1754d35
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3cec8a42fcd11d05313c724f27e01b1db77522c
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