CVE-2022-48982 Bluetooth: Fix crash when replugging CSR fake controllers
A local attacker with physical access can cause a kernel panic by replugging fake CSR Bluetooth controllers, leading to system denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-48982?
CVE-2022-48982 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: Fix crash when replugging CSR fake controllers
It seems fake CSR 5.0 clones can cause the suspend notifier to be registered twice causing the following kernel panic:
[ 71.986122] Call Trace: [ 71.986124] <TASK> [ 71.986125] blocking_notifier_chain_register+0x33/0x60 [ 71.986130] hci_register_dev+0x316/0x3d0 [bluetooth 99b5497ea3d09708fa1366c1dc03288bf3cca8da] [ 71.986154] btusb_probe+0x979/0xd85 [btusb e1e0605a4f4c01984a4b9c8ac58c3666ae287477] [ 71.986159] ? __pm_runtime_set_status+0x1a9/0x300 [ 71.986162] ? ktime_get_mono_fast_ns+0x3e/0x90 [ 71.986167] usb_probe_interface+0xe3/0x2b0 [ 71.986171] really_probe+0xdb/0x380 [ 71.986174] ? pm_runtime_barrier+0x54/0x90 [ 71.986177] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x170 [ 71.986180] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90 [ 71.986183] __device_attach_driver+0x89/0x110 [ 71.986186] ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x70/0x70 [ 71.986189] bus_for_each_drv+0x8c/0xe0 [ 71.986192] __device_attach+0xb2/0x1e0 [ 71.986195] bus_probe_device+0x92/0xb0 [ 71.986198] device_add+0x422/0x9a0 [ 71.986201] ? sysfs_merge_group+0xd4/0x110 [ 71.986205] usb_set_configuration+0x57a/0x820 [ 71.986208] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x4f/0x70 [ 71.986211] usb_probe_device+0x3a/0x110 [ 71.986213] really_probe+0xdb/0x380 [ 71.986216] ? pm_runtime_barrier+0x54/0x90 [ 71.986219] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x170 [ 71.986221] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90 [ 71.986224] __device_attach_driver+0x89/0x110 [ 71.986227] ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x70/0x70 [ 71.986230] bus_for_each_drv+0x8c/0xe0 [ 71.986232] __device_attach+0xb2/0x1e0 [ 71.986235] bus_probe_device+0x92/0xb0 [ 71.986237] device_add+0x422/0x9a0 [ 71.986239] ? _dev_info+0x7d/0x98 [ 71.986242] ? blake2s_update+0x4c/0xc0 [ 71.986246] usb_new_device.cold+0x148/0x36d [ 71.986250] hub_event+0xa8a/0x1910 [ 71.986255] process_one_work+0x1c4/0x380 [ 71.986259] worker_thread+0x51/0x390 [ 71.986262] ? rescuer_thread+0x3b0/0x3b0 [ 71.986264] kthread+0xdb/0x110 [ 71.986266] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 [ 71.986268] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [ 71.986273] </TASK> [ 71.986274] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 71.986284] btusb: probe of 2-1.6:1.0 failed with error -17
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48982?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2022-48982?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2022-48982 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48982 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48982, GHSA-49cv-p7rx-m2vh, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48982.