CVE-2022-50374 Bluetooth: hci_{ldisc,serdev}: check percpu_init_rwsem() failure

What is CVE-2022-50374?

CVE-2022-50374 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Sep 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_{ldisc,serdev}: check percpu_init_rwsem() failure

syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at hci_uart_tty_close() [1], for rcu_sync_enter() is called without rcu_sync_init() due to hci_uart_tty_open() ignoring percpu_init_rwsem() failure.

While we are at it, fix that hci_uart_register_device() ignores percpu_init_rwsem() failure and hci_uart_unregister_device() does not call percpu_free_rwsem().

Weakness: CWE-908

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50374?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50374?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-50374 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50374 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-2022-50374, GHSA-jrjj-g8hj-84fg, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50374.