linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38117: Bluetooth: MGMT: Protect mgmt

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Message-ID: <2025070326-CVE-2025-38117-3424@gregkh>
Date: Thu,  3 Jul 2025 10:35:34 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38117: Bluetooth: MGMT: Protect mgmt_pending list with its own lock

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

Bluetooth: MGMT: Protect mgmt_pending list with its own lock

This uses a mutex to protect from concurrent access of mgmt_pending
list which can cause crashes like:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hci_sock_get_channel+0x60/0x68 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:91
Read of size 2 at addr ffff0000c48885b2 by task syz.4.334/7318

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7318 Comm: syz.4.334 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7-syzkaller-g187899f4124a #0 PREEMPT
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025
Call trace:
 show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:466 (C)
 __dump_stack+0x30/0x40 lib/dump_stack.c:94
 dump_stack_lvl+0xd8/0x12c lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0xa8/0x254 mm/kasan/report.c:408
 print_report+0x68/0x84 mm/kasan/report.c:521
 kasan_report+0xb0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634
 __asan_report_load2_noabort+0x20/0x2c mm/kasan/report_generic.c:379
 hci_sock_get_channel+0x60/0x68 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:91
 mgmt_pending_find+0x7c/0x140 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:223
 pending_find net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:947 [inline]
 remove_adv_monitor+0x44/0x1a4 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5445
 hci_mgmt_cmd+0x780/0xc00 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1712
 hci_sock_sendmsg+0x544/0xbb0 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1832
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 sock_write_iter+0x25c/0x378 net/socket.c:1131
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:591 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x62c/0x97c fs/read_write.c:684
 ksys_write+0x120/0x210 fs/read_write.c:736
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:747 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:744 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_write+0x7c/0x90 fs/read_write.c:744
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132
 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151
 el0_svc+0x58/0x17c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:767
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x78/0x108 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:786
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:600

Allocated by task 7037:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x40/0x78 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_alloc_info+0x44/0x54 mm/kasan/generic.c:562
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x9c/0xb4 mm/kasan/common.c:394
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4327 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x2fc/0x4c8 mm/slub.c:4339
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:909 [inline]
 sk_prot_alloc+0xc4/0x1f0 net/core/sock.c:2198
 sk_alloc+0x44/0x3ac net/core/sock.c:2254
 bt_sock_alloc+0x4c/0x300 net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c:148
 hci_sock_create+0xa8/0x194 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:2202
 bt_sock_create+0x14c/0x24c net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c:132
 __sock_create+0x43c/0x91c net/socket.c:1541
 sock_create net/socket.c:1599 [inline]
 __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1636 [inline]
 __sys_socket+0xd4/0x1c0 net/socket.c:1683
 __do_sys_socket net/socket.c:1697 [inline]
 __se_sys_socket net/socket.c:1695 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_socket+0x7c/0x94 net/socket.c:1695
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132
 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151
 el0_svc+0x58/0x17c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:767
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x78/0x108 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:786
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:600

Freed by task 6607:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x40/0x78 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x68/0x88 mm/kasan/common.c:264
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2380 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4642 [inline]
 kfree+0x17c/0x474 mm/slub.c:4841
 sk_prot_free net/core/sock.c:2237 [inline]
 __sk_destruct+0x4f4/0x760 net/core/sock.c:2332
 sk_destruct net/core/sock.c:2360 [inline]
 __sk_free+0x320/0x430 net/core/sock.c:2371
 sk_free+0x60/0xc8 net/core/sock.c:2382
 sock_put include/net/sock.h:1944 [inline]
 mgmt_pending_free+0x88/0x118 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:290
 mgmt_pending_remove+0xec/0x104 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:298
 mgmt_set_powered_complete+0x418/0x5cc net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:1355
 hci_cmd_sync_work+0x204/0x33c net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:334
 process_one_work+0x7e8/0x156c kernel/workqueue.c:3238
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x958/0xed8 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x5fc/0x75c kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:847

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38117 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit a380b6cff1a2d2139772e88219d08330f84d0381 and fixed in 6.6.94 with commit bdd56875c6926d8009914f427df71797693e90d4
	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit a380b6cff1a2d2139772e88219d08330f84d0381 and fixed in 6.12.34 with commit 4e83f2dbb2bf677e614109df24426c4dded472d4
	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit a380b6cff1a2d2139772e88219d08330f84d0381 and fixed in 6.15.3 with commit d7882db79135c829a922daf3571f33ea1e056ae3
	Issue introduced in 4.1 with commit a380b6cff1a2d2139772e88219d08330f84d0381 and fixed in 6.16-rc2 with commit 6fe26f694c824b8a4dbf50c635bee1302e3f099c

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-38117
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h
	net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
	net/bluetooth/mgmt.c
	net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c
	net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.h


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdd56875c6926d8009914f427df71797693e90d4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e83f2dbb2bf677e614109df24426c4dded472d4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7882db79135c829a922daf3571f33ea1e056ae3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fe26f694c824b8a4dbf50c635bee1302e3f099c