{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2025-06-18T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: Bluetooth: When HCI work queue is drained, only queue chained work",
    "id" : "2373486",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2373486"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-820",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nBluetooth: When HCI work queue is drained, only queue chained work\nThe HCI command, event, and data packet processing workqueue is drained\nto avoid deadlock in commit\n76727c02c1e1 (\"Bluetooth: Call drain_workqueue() before resetting state\").\nThere is another delayed work, which will queue command to this drained\nworkqueue. Which results in the following error report:\nBluetooth: hci2: command 0x040f tx timeout\nWARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 18374 at kernel/workqueue.c:1438 __queue_work+0xdad/0x1140\nWorkqueue: events hci_cmd_timeout\nRIP: 0010:__queue_work+0xdad/0x1140\nRSP: 0000:ffffc90002cffc60 EFLAGS: 00010093\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880b9d3ec00 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: ffff888024ba0000 RSI: ffffffff814e048d RDI: ffff8880b9d3ec08\nRBP: 0000000000000008 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000b9d39700\nR10: ffffffff814f73c6 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88807cce4c60\nR13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8880796d8800 R15: ffff8880796d8800\nFS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 000000c0174b4000 CR3: 000000007cae9000 CR4: 00000000003506e0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n<TASK>\n? queue_work_on+0xcb/0x110\n? lockdep_hardirqs_off+0x90/0xd0\nqueue_work_on+0xee/0x110\nprocess_one_work+0x996/0x1610\n? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x2a0/0x2a0\n? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90\n? _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x41/0x50\nworker_thread+0x665/0x1080\n? process_one_work+0x1610/0x1610\nkthread+0x2e9/0x3a0\n? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x40/0x40\nret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n</TASK>\nTo fix this, we can add a new HCI_DRAIN_WQ flag, and don't queue the\ntimeout workqueue while command workqueue is draining." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-05-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:2458",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2023-05-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:2458",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50166\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50166\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061827-CVE-2022-50166-5ecc@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2022-50166",
  "csaw" : false
}