CVE-2025-38118 (GCVE-0-2025-38118)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 08:35 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:59
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix UAF on mgmt_remove_adv_monitor_complete
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix UAF on mgmt_remove_adv_monitor_complete
This reworks MGMT_OP_REMOVE_ADV_MONITOR to not use mgmt_pending_add to
avoid crashes like bellow:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mgmt_remove_adv_monitor_complete+0xe5/0x540 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5406
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801c53f318 by task kworker/u5:5/5341
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5341 Comm: kworker/u5:5 Not tainted 6.15.0-syzkaller-10402-g4cb6c8af8591 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]
print_report+0xd2/0x2b0 mm/kasan/report.c:521
kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:634
mgmt_remove_adv_monitor_complete+0xe5/0x540 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5406
hci_cmd_sync_work+0x261/0x3a0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:334
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3238 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xade/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3321
worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3402
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:464
ret_from_fork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>
Allocated by task 5987:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x230/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:4358
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
mgmt_pending_new+0x65/0x240 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:252
mgmt_pending_add+0x34/0x120 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:279
remove_adv_monitor+0x103/0x1b0 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5454
hci_mgmt_cmd+0x9c9/0xef0 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1719
hci_sock_sendmsg+0x6ca/0xef0 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1839
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x219/0x270 net/socket.c:727
sock_write_iter+0x258/0x330 net/socket.c:1131
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
vfs_write+0x548/0xa90 fs/read_write.c:686
ksys_write+0x145/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Freed by task 5989:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x62/0x70 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+0x18e/0x440 mm/slub.c:4841
mgmt_pending_foreach+0xc9/0x120 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:242
mgmt_index_removed+0x10d/0x2f0 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:9366
hci_sock_bind+0xbe9/0x1000 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1314
__sys_bind_socket net/socket.c:1810 [inline]
__sys_bind+0x2c3/0x3e0 net/socket.c:1841
__do_sys_bind net/socket.c:1846 [inline]
__se_sys_bind net/socket.c:1844 [inline]
__x64_sys_bind+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1844
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Severity
7.8 (High)
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
66bd095ab5d408af106808cce302406542f70f65 , < 3c9aba9cbdf163e2654be9f82d43ff8a04273962
(git)
Affected: 66bd095ab5d408af106808cce302406542f70f65 , < 9f66b6531c2b4e996bb61720ee94adb4b2e8d1be (git) Affected: 66bd095ab5d408af106808cce302406542f70f65 , < 9df3e5e7f7e4653fd9802878cedc36defc5ef42d (git) Affected: 66bd095ab5d408af106808cce302406542f70f65 , < 32aa2fbe319f33b0318ec6f4fceb63879771a286 (git) Affected: 66bd095ab5d408af106808cce302406542f70f65 , < e6ed54e86aae9e4f7286ce8d5c73780f91b48d1c (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.12 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.94 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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