CVE-2022-49470
Bluetooth: btmtksdio: fix use-after-free at btmtksdio_recv_event
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Linux
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)
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinuxCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.31% · top 76% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 9aebfd4a2200ab8075e44379c758bccefdc589bb – < b3cec8a42fcd11d05313c724f27e01b1db77522c
- affected 9aebfd4a2200ab8075e44379c758bccefdc589bb – < 02ba31e09a26e8cd4582ac8e6163d80284997727
- affected 9aebfd4a2200ab8075e44379c758bccefdc589bb – < 01c6a899fa6be4f4cbf60c4f44f0f6691155415f
- affected 9aebfd4a2200ab8075e44379c758bccefdc589bb – < 0fab6361c4ba17d1b43a991bef4238a3c1754d35
- affected 5.2
- unaffected < 5.2
- unaffected 5.15.54 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 5.17.14 – ≤ 5.17.*
- unaffected 5.18.3 – ≤ 5.18.*
- unaffected 5.19 – ≤ *
References (4)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3cec8a42fcd11d05313c724f27e01b1db77522c (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02ba31e09a26e8cd4582ac8e6163d80284997727 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01c6a899fa6be4f4cbf60c4f44f0f6691155415f (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fab6361c4ba17d1b43a991bef4238a3c1754d35 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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