CVE-2022-49968

ieee802154/adf7242: defer destroy_workqueue call

State
Published
Severity
8.0 High
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Jun 18, 2025

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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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Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.0 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 58e9683d14752debc6f22daf6b23e031787df31f to before dede80aaf01f4b6e8657d23726cb4a3da226ec4cAffected
  • 58e9683d14752debc6f22daf6b23e031787df31f to before bed12d7531df1417fc92c691999ff95e03835008Affected
  • 58e9683d14752debc6f22daf6b23e031787df31f to before 23a29932715ca43bceb2eae1bdb770995afe7271Affected
  • 58e9683d14752debc6f22daf6b23e031787df31f to before 9f8558c5c642c62c450c98c99b7d18a709fff485Affected
  • 58e9683d14752debc6f22daf6b23e031787df31f to before 15f3b89bd521d5770d36a61fc04a77c293138ba6Affected
  • 58e9683d14752debc6f22daf6b23e031787df31f to before afe7116f6d3b888778ed6d95e3cf724767b9aedfAffected
  • a2363e2d88bf50022ee643c49ee5d4f7e8c915eaAffected
  • 4.17.19 to before 4.18Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.18Affected
  • before 4.18Not affected
  • 4.19.258 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.213 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.142 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.66 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.19.8 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0 and laterNot affected

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