CVE-2022-49968

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49968
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49968.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49968
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
SUSE (7)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Published
2025-06-18T11:00:32Z
Modified
2026-10-20T10:30:20Z
Severity
  • 8.0 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
ieee802154/adf7242: defer destroy_workqueue call
Details

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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Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49968.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
58e9683d14752debc6f22daf6b23e031787df31f
Fixed
dede80aaf01f4b6e8657d23726cb4a3da226ec4c
Fixed
bed12d7531df1417fc92c691999ff95e03835008
Fixed
23a29932715ca43bceb2eae1bdb770995afe7271
Fixed
9f8558c5c642c62c450c98c99b7d18a709fff485
Fixed
15f3b89bd521d5770d36a61fc04a77c293138ba6
Fixed
afe7116f6d3b888778ed6d95e3cf724767b9aedf
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4.17.19
Fixed
4.18
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a2363e2d88bf50022ee643c49ee5d4f7e8c915ea

Affected versions

v4.*
v4.17.19

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49968.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.18.0
Fixed
4.19.258
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.213
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.142
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.66
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
5.19.8

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49968.json"