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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49842" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:57.711Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:07:49.831Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49842" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49842.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49842" title: "ASoC: core: Fix use-after-free in snd_soc_exit()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nASoC: core: Fix use-after-free in snd_soc_exit()\n\nKASAN reports a use-after-free:\n\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in device_del+0xb5b/0xc60\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff888008655050 by task rmmod/387\nCPU: 2 PID: 387 Comm: rmmod\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)\nCall Trace:\n\u003cTASK\u003e\ndump_stack_lvl+0x79/0x9a\nprint_report+0x17f/0x47b\nkasan_report+0xbb/0xf0\ndevice_del+0xb5b/0xc60\nplatform_device_del.part.0+0x24/0x200\nplatform_device_unregister+0x2e/0x40\nsnd_soc_exit+0xa/0x22 [snd_soc_core]\n__do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x34f/0x5b0\ndo_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n...\n\u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nIt's bacause in snd_soc_init(), snd_soc_util_init() is possble to fail,\nbut its ret is ignored, which makes soc_dummy_dev unregistered twice.\n\nsnd_soc_init()\n snd_soc_util_init()\n platform_device_register_simple(soc_dummy_dev)\n platform_driver_register() # fail\n \tplatform_device_unregister(soc_dummy_dev)\n platform_driver_register() # success\n...\nsnd_soc_exit()\n snd_soc_util_exit()\n # soc_dummy_dev will be unregistered for second time\n\nTo fix it, handle error and stop snd_soc_init() when util_init() fail.\nAlso clean debugfs when util_init() or driver_register() fail." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fb257897bf20c5f0e1df584bb5b874e811651263","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"41fad4f712e081acdfde8b59847f9f66eaf407a0"},{"version":"fb257897bf20c5f0e1df584bb5b874e811651263","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90bbdf30a51e42378cb23a312005a022794b8e1e"},{"version":"fb257897bf20c5f0e1df584bb5b874e811651263","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3365e62239dc064019a244bde5686ac18527c22"},{"version":"fb257897bf20c5f0e1df584bb5b874e811651263","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ec3f558db343b045a7c7419cdbaec266b8ac1a7"},{"version":"fb257897bf20c5f0e1df584bb5b874e811651263","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d21554ec7680e9585fb852d933203c3db60dad1"},{"version":"fb257897bf20c5f0e1df584bb5b874e811651263","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"34eee4189bcebbd5f6a2ff25ef0cb893ad33d51e"},{"version":"fb257897bf20c5f0e1df584bb5b874e811651263","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c5674bd073c0fd9f620ca550c5ff08d0d429bdd9"},{"version":"fb257897bf20c5f0e1df584bb5b874e811651263","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ec27c53886c8963729885bcf2dd996eba2767a7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.0"},{"version":"4.9.334","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.300","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.267","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.225","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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