CVE-2025-39983 (published 2025-10-15 08:15:36.280000+00:00)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix UAF in hci_conn_tx_dequeue

This fixes the following UAF caused by not properly locking hdev when
processing HCI_EV_NUM_COMP_PKTS:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hci_conn_tx_dequeue+0x1be/0x220 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:3036
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880740f0940 by task kworker/u11:0/54

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/u11:0 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc7 #3 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: hci1 hci_rx_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xca/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:480
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:593
 hci_conn_tx_dequeue+0x1be/0x220 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:3036
 hci_num_comp_pkts_evt+0x1c8/0xa50 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:4404
 hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7477 [inline]
 hci_event_packet+0x7e0/0x1200 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7531
 hci_rx_work+0x46a/0xe80 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4070
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3238 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3321
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3402
 kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 home/kwqcheii/source/fuzzing/kernel/kasan/linux-6.16-rc7/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 54:
 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:4359
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
 __hci_conn_add+0x233/0x1b30 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:939
 le_conn_complete_evt+0x3d6/0x1220 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:5628
 hci_le_enh_conn_complete_evt+0x189/0x470 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:5794
 hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7474 [inline]
 hci_event_packet+0x78c/0x1200 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7531
 hci_rx_work+0x46a/0xe80 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4070
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3238 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3321
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3402
 kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 home/kwqcheii/source/fuzzing/kernel/kasan/linux-6.16-rc7/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 9572:
 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:2381 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4643 [inline]
 kfree+0x18e/0x440 mm/slub.c:4842
 device_release+0x9c/0x1c0
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x22b/0x480 lib/kobject.c:737
 hci_conn_cleanup net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:175 [inline]
 hci_conn_del+0x8ff/0xcb0 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:1173
 hci_abort_conn_sync+0x5d1/0xdf0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5689
 hci_cmd_sync_work+0x210/0x3a0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:332
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3238 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3321
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3402
 kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 home/kwqcheii/source/fuzzing/kernel/kasan/linux-6.16-rc7/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245