Description

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

Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix UAF in hci_enhanced_setup_sync

This checks if the ACL connection remains valid as it could be destroyed
while hci_enhanced_setup_sync is pending on cmd_sync leading to the
following trace:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x91b/0xa60
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888002328ffd by task kworker/u5:2/37

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 37 Comm: kworker/u5:2 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-01300-g810be445d8d6 #7099
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014
Workqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80
? hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x91b/0xa60
print_report+0x152/0x4c0
? hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x91b/0xa60
? __virt_addr_valid+0x1fa/0x420
? hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x91b/0xa60
kasan_report+0xda/0x1b0
? hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x91b/0xa60
hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x91b/0xa60
? __pfx_hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x10/0x10
? __pfx___mutex_lock+0x10/0x10
hci_cmd_sync_work+0x1c2/0x330
process_one_work+0x7d9/0x1360
? __pfx_lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10
? assign_work+0x167/0x240
worker_thread+0x5b7/0xf60
? __kthread_parkme+0xac/0x1c0
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0x293/0x360
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x70
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Allocated by task 34:
kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50
kasan_save_tra...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-50029

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.8

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

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 10.61% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50029
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/867639300759e3e1c5b1e1a5ff89231f263a32a7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98ccd44002d88cbf4edfc4480df532a3da5a013e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18fd04ad856df07733f5bb07e7f7168e7443d393

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