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"cveId": "CVE-2022-49995",
"assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"state": "PUBLISHED",
"assignerShortName": "Linux",
"dateReserved": "2025-06-18T10:57:27.387Z",
"datePublished": "2025-06-18T11:00:55.352Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T08:57:04.391Z"
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwriteback: avoid use-after-free after removing device\n\nWhen a disk is removed, bdi_unregister gets called to stop further\nwriteback and wait for associated delayed work to complete. However,\nwb_inode_writeback_end() may schedule bandwidth estimation dwork after\nthis has completed, which can result in the timer attempting to access the\njust freed bdi_writeback.\n\nFix this by checking if the bdi_writeback is alive, similar to when\nscheduling writeback work.\n\nSince this requires wb->work_lock, and wb_inode_writeback_end() may get\ncalled from interrupt, switch wb->work_lock to an irqsafe lock."
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"value": "AV:L - The bug is reached via local filesystem writeback and block-device teardown (USB/removable media, del_gendisk → bdi_unregister), not by processing remote network packets. An attacker needs local access to dirty pages on an affected device.\nAC:L - The attacker can drive both sides of the race by generating writeback I/O and then removing or ejecting the device (e.g. udisks power-off or surprise unplug), and the delayed bw_dwork (~200ms) widens the window; this UAF was hit in practice (KASAN).\nPR:L - An unprivileged user can write to auto-mounted removable storage and trigger or cause its removal without CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the init namespace. Root-only sysfs delete is not required for the worst reasonable removable-media scenario.\nUI:N - The attacker can complete the full sequence (dirty data then eject/remove the device they wrote to) without relying on a separate victim action.\nS:U - This is a host-kernel use-after-free leading to privilege escalation within the same OS security authority, not a VM escape or IOMMU/cross-boundary breakout.\nC:H - Use-after-free of the bdi_writeback object lets an attacker reclaim and control freed kernel memory, enabling arbitrary kernel read primitives.\nI:H - The same UAF is exploitable via heap spray for arbitrary kernel writes and control-flow hijacking through the delayed bandwidth-update work path.\nA:H - The freed bdi_writeback is accessed from delayed work (observed as a KASAN splat), which can oops/panic the kernel even when not fully exploited."
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