CVE-2022-49555 Bluetooth: hci_qca: Use del_timer_sync() before freeing

What is CVE-2022-49555?

CVE-2022-49555 is a high-severity use after free 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:

Bluetooth: hci_qca: Use del_timer_sync() before freeing

While looking at a crash report on a timer list being corrupted, which usually happens when a timer is freed while still active. This is commonly triggered by code calling del_timer() instead of del_timer_sync() just before freeing.

One possible culprit is the hci_qca driver, which does exactly that.

Eric mentioned that wake_retrans_timer could be rearmed via the work queue, so also move the destruction of the work queue before del_timer_sync().

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49555?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49555?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2022-49555 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49555 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49555, GHSA-x3w4-q7cr-j86p, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49555.