# CVE-2022-49259: block: don't delete queue kobject before its children

> A kernel bug in the block layer causes a warning and potential crash when deleting queue kobjects before their children, leading to denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **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:** Yes
- **Published:** 26 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49259, GHSA-q5pf-p6c7-q44j, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49259

## What is CVE-2022-49259?

CVE-2022-49259 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. 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:

block: don't delete queue kobject before its children

kobjects aren't supposed to be deleted before their child kobjects are
deleted.  Apparently this is usually benign; however, a WARN will be
triggered if one of the child kobjects has a named attribute group:

    sysfs group 'modes' not found for kobject 'crypto'
    WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at fs/sysfs/group.c:278 sysfs_remove_group+0x72/0x80
    ...
    Call Trace:
      sysfs_remove_groups+0x29/0x40 fs/sysfs/group.c:312
      __kobject_del+0x20/0x80 lib/kobject.c:611
      kobject_cleanup+0xa4/0x140 lib/kobject.c:696
      kobject_release lib/kobject.c:736 [inline]
      kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
      kobject_put+0x53/0x70 lib/kobject.c:753
      blk_crypto_sysfs_unregister+0x10/0x20 block/blk-crypto-sysfs.c:159
      blk_unregister_queue+0xb0/0x110 block/blk-sysfs.c:962
      del_gendisk+0x117/0x250 block/genhd.c:610

Fix this by moving the kobject_del() and the corresponding
kobject_uevent() to the correct place.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49259?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-49259?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-49259 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49259 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49259 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-49259 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49259 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49259/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49259/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49259
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49259
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49259

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.