linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53762: Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix UAF in hci_disconnect_all

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Message-ID: <2025120845-CVE-2023-53762-01bc@gregkh>
Date: Mon,  8 Dec 2025 10:20:01 +0900
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53762: Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix UAF in hci_disconnect_all_sync

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

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

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

Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix UAF in hci_disconnect_all_sync

Use-after-free can occur in hci_disconnect_all_sync if a connection is
deleted by concurrent processing of a controller event.

To prevent this the code now tries to iterate over the list backwards
to ensure the links are cleanup before its parents, also it no longer
relies on a cursor, instead it always uses the last element since
hci_abort_conn_sync is guaranteed to call hci_conn_del.

UAF crash log:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hci_set_powered_sync
(net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5424) [bluetooth]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888009d9c000 by task kworker/u9:0/124

CPU: 0 PID: 124 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Tainted: G        W
6.5.0-rc1+ #10
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS
1.16.2-1.fc38 04/01/2014
Workqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work [bluetooth]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x5b/0x90
 print_report+0xcf/0x670
 ? __virt_addr_valid+0xdd/0x160
 ? hci_set_powered_sync+0x2c9/0x4a0 [bluetooth]
 kasan_report+0xa6/0xe0
 ? hci_set_powered_sync+0x2c9/0x4a0 [bluetooth]
 ? __pfx_set_powered_sync+0x10/0x10 [bluetooth]
 hci_set_powered_sync+0x2c9/0x4a0 [bluetooth]
 ? __pfx_hci_set_powered_sync+0x10/0x10 [bluetooth]
 ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_set_powered_sync+0x10/0x10 [bluetooth]
 hci_cmd_sync_work+0x137/0x220 [bluetooth]
 process_one_work+0x526/0x9d0
 ? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_do_raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10
 ? mark_held_locks+0x1a/0x90
 worker_thread+0x92/0x630
 ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
 kthread+0x196/0x1e0
 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
 ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1782:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
 kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
 hci_conn_add+0xa5/0xa80 [bluetooth]
 hci_bind_cis+0x881/0x9b0 [bluetooth]
 iso_connect_cis+0x121/0x520 [bluetooth]
 iso_sock_connect+0x3f6/0x790 [bluetooth]
 __sys_connect+0x109/0x130
 __x64_sys_connect+0x40/0x50
 do_syscall_64+0x60/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

Freed by task 695:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
 kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2b/0x50
 __kasan_slab_free+0x10a/0x180
 __kmem_cache_free+0x14d/0x2e0
 device_release+0x5d/0xf0
 kobject_put+0xdf/0x270
 hci_disconn_complete_evt+0x274/0x3a0 [bluetooth]
 hci_event_packet+0x579/0x7e0 [bluetooth]
 hci_rx_work+0x287/0xaa0 [bluetooth]
 process_one_work+0x526/0x9d0
 worker_thread+0x92/0x630
 kthread+0x196/0x1e0
 ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
==================================================================

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53762 to this issue.

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

	Issue introduced in 5.17 with commit 182ee45da083db4e3e621541ccf255bfa9652214 and fixed in 6.4.16 with commit a30c074f0b5b7f909a15c978fbc96a29e2f94e42
	Issue introduced in 5.17 with commit 182ee45da083db4e3e621541ccf255bfa9652214 and fixed in 6.5.3 with commit ba3ba53ce1f76fc372b8f918fece4f9b1e41acd4
	Issue introduced in 5.17 with commit 182ee45da083db4e3e621541ccf255bfa9652214 and fixed in 6.6 with commit 94d9ba9f9888b748d4abd2aa1547af56ae85f772

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-2023-53762
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:
	net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c

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/a30c074f0b5b7f909a15c978fbc96a29e2f94e42
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba3ba53ce1f76fc372b8f918fece4f9b1e41acd4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94d9ba9f9888b748d4abd2aa1547af56ae85f772