CVE-2022-50470

HIGH

Linux Kernel Use-After-Free in xHCI Bandwidth List Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xhci: Remove device endpoints from bandwidth list when freeing the device Endpoints are normally deleted from the bandwidth list when they are dropped, before the virt device is freed. If xHC host is dying or being removed then the endpoints aren't dropped cleanly due to functions returning early to avoid interacting with a non-accessible host controller. So check and delete endpoints that are still on the bandwidth list when freeing the virt device. Solves a list_del corruption kernel crash when unbinding xhci-pci, caused by xhci_mem_cleanup() when it later tried to delete already freed endpoints from the bandwidth list. This only affects hosts that use software bandwidth checking, which currenty is only the xHC in intel Panther Point PCH (Ivy Bridge)

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-415
Status published
Products (27)
linux/Kernel 3.2.0 - 4.9.332linux
linux/Kernel 4.10.0 - 4.14.298linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.264linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.223linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.77linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.7linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.153linux
Linux/Linux < 3.2
Linux/Linux 2e27980e6eb78114c4ecbaad1ba71836e3887d18 - 3bf860a41e0f2fcea0ac3aae8f7ef887a7994b70
Linux/Linux 2e27980e6eb78114c4ecbaad1ba71836e3887d18 - 5aed5b7c2430ce318a8e62f752f181e66f0d1053
... and 17 more
Published Oct 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026