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GHSA-4Q85-VFWH-W392

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-06-18 12:30 – Updated: 2025-11-14 18:31

Details

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

nfc: pn533: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by pn532_cmd_timeout

When the pn532 uart device is detaching, the pn532_uart_remove() is called. But there are no functions in pn532_uart_remove() that could delete the cmd_timeout timer, which will cause use-after-free bugs. The process is shown below:

(thread 1)                  |        (thread 2)
                            |  pn532_uart_send_frame

This patch adds del_timer_sync() in pn532_uart_remove() in order to prevent the use-after-free bugs. What's more, the pn53x_unregister_nfc() is well synchronized, it sets nfc_dev->shutting_down to true and there are no syscalls could restart the cmd_timeout timer.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2022-50005 (GCVE-0-2022-50005)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:01 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:10

Title

nfc: pn533: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by pn532_cmd_timeout

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: pn533: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by pn532_cmd_timeout When the pn532 uart device is detaching, the pn532_uart_remove() is called. But there are no functions in pn532_uart_remove() that could delete the cmd_timeout timer, which will cause use-after-free bugs. The process is shown below: (thread 1) | (thread 2) | pn532_uart_send_frame pn532_uart_remove | mod_timer(&pn532->cmd_timeout,...) ... | (wait a time) kfree(pn532) //FREE | pn532_cmd_timeout | pn532_uart_send_frame | pn532->... //USE This patch adds del_timer_sync() in pn532_uart_remove() in order to prevent the use-after-free bugs. What's more, the pn53x_unregister_nfc() is well synchronized, it sets nfc_dev->shutting_down to true and there are no syscalls could restart the cmd_timeout timer.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50403ee6daddf0d7a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c34c33893db7a80d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c71f5d55a86fd596…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1e941dbf80a9b8ba…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
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Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.5 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.5 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.140 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.64 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.19.6 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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