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CVE-2022-50419

Updated on 18 Sep 2025

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_sysfs: Fix attempting to call device_add multiple times

device_add shall not be called multiple times as stated in its documentation:

‘Do not call this routine or device_register() more than once for any device structure’

Syzkaller reports a bug as follows [1]: ————[ cut here ]———— kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:33! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN […] Call Trace: <TASK> __list_add include/linux/list.h:69 [inline] list_add_tail include/linux/list.h:102 [inline] kobj_kset_join lib/kobject.c:164 [inline] kobject_add_internal+0x18f/0x8f0 lib/kobject.c:214 kobject_add_varg lib/kobject.c:358 [inline] kobject_add+0x150/0x1c0 lib/kobject.c:410 device_add+0x368/0x1e90 drivers/base/core.c:3452 hci_conn_add_sysfs+0x9b/0x1b0 net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c:53 hci_le_cis_estabilished_evt+0x57c/0xae0 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:6799 hci_le_meta_evt+0x2b8/0x510 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7110 hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7440 [inline] hci_event_packet+0x63d/0xfd0 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7495 hci_rx_work+0xae7/0x1230 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4007 process_one_work+0x991/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436 kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306 </TASK>

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
linux @ 4.19.0 (+17 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU Released
16 kernels
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els20
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els21
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els23
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els22
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els14
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els18
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els16
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els15
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els17
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els19
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els24
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els25
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els26
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els27
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els28
  • 5.14.0-284.1101.el9_2.tuxcare.7.els29
Amazon Linux 2 Planned —
CentOS 7 ELS Released
25 kernels
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els10
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els4
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els6
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els15
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els5
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els3
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els14
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els16
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els13
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els7
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els12
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els9
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els8
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els17
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els18
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els19
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els20
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els21
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els24
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els22
  • 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.tuxcare.els25
  • 3.10.0-1160.139.1.el7.tuxcare.els2
  • 3.10.0-1160.139.1.el7.tuxcare.els3
  • 3.10.0-1160.139.1.el7.tuxcare.els4
  • 3.10.0-1160.142.1.el7.tuxcare.els1
Ubuntu 18.04 Planned —
Ubuntu 20.04 Planned —
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned —