CVE-2022-49259

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 4.16-5.17.1 DoS via Kobject Deletion Order

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 18.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (23)
linux/Kernel 4.16.0 - 4.19.238linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.189linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.33linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.19linux
linux/Kernel 5.17.0 - 5.17.2linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.110linux
Linux/Linux < 4.16
Linux/Linux 2c2086afc2b8b974fac32cb028e73dc27bfae442 - 0b5924a14d64487ebd51127b0358d06066ef5384
Linux/Linux 2c2086afc2b8b974fac32cb028e73dc27bfae442 - 0f69288253e9fc7c495047720e523b9f1aba5712
Linux/Linux 2c2086afc2b8b974fac32cb028e73dc27bfae442 - 3d7e32c8da45957326f56937e0471c686d1a7711
... and 13 more
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026