CVE-2022-50419CWE-415

CVE-2022-50419

High · published September 18, 2025

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_sysfs: Fix attempting to call device_add multiple times

device_add shall not be called multiple times as stated in its

documentation:

'Do not call this routine or device_register() more than once for

any device structure'

Syzkaller reports a bug as follows [1]:

------------[ cut here ]------------

kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:33!

invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN

[...]

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__list_add include/linux/list.h:69 [inline]

list_add_tail include/linux/list.h:102 [inline]

kobj_kset_join lib/kobject.c:164 [inline]

kobject_add_internal+0x18f/0x8f0 lib/kobject.c:214

kobject_add_varg lib/kobject.c:358 [inline]

kobject_add+0x150/0x1c0 lib/kobject.c:410

device_add+0x368/0x1e90 drivers/base/core.c:3452

hci_conn_add_sysfs+0x9b/0x1b0 net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c:53

hci_le_cis_estabilished_evt+0x57c/0xae0 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:6799

hci_le_meta_evt+0x2b8/0x510 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7110

hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7440 [inline]

hci_event_packet+0x63d/0xfd0 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7495

hci_rx_work+0xae7/0x1230 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4007

process_one_work+0x991/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289

worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436

kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376

ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306

</TASK>

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00241 · 14.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-415 · Double Free
Published
2025-09-18T20:15Z
Affected products (8)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 2.6.19, < 4.9.3314.9.331
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.10, < 4.14.2964.14.296
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.15, < 4.19.2624.19.262
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20, < 5.4.2205.4.220
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.1505.10.150
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.755.15.75
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 5.19.175.19.17
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.0, < 6.0.36.0.3
References (9)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 SEP 16:04Z
    Bluetooth: hci_sysfs: Fix attempting to call device_add multiple times
    cvelistv5