Description

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

Bluetooth: L2CAP: handle NULL sock pointer in l2cap_sock_alloc

A NULL sock pointer is passed into l2cap_sock_alloc() when it is called
from l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb() and the error handling paths should
also be aware of it.

Seemingly a more elegant solution would be to swap bt_sock_alloc() and
l2cap_chan_create() calls since they are not interdependent to that moment
but then l2cap_chan_create() adds the soon to be deallocated and still
dummy-initialized channel to the global list accessible by many L2CAP
paths. The channel would be removed from the list in short period of time
but be a bit more straight-forward here and just check for NULL instead of
changing the order of function calls.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE static
analysis tool.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-58009

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux, Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 10.65% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-27 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-58009
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/297ce7f544aa675b0d136d788cad0710cdfb0785
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/245d48c1ba3e7a1779c2f4cbc6f581ddc8a78e22
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/691218a50c3139f7f57ffa79fb89d932eda9571e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49c0d55d59662430f1829ae85b969619573d0fa1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f397409f8ee5bc82901eeaf799e1cbc4f8edcf1

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