CVE: CVE-2025-39860
Published: 2025-09-19
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen()

syzbot reported the splat below without a repro.

In the splat, a single thread calling bt_accept_dequeue() freed sk
and touched it after that.

The root cause would be the racy l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() call
added by the cited commit.

bt_accept_dequeue() is called under lock_sock() except for
l2cap_sock_release().

Two threads could see the same socket during the list iteration
in bt_accept_dequeue():

  CPU1                        CPU2 (close())
  ----                        ----
  sock_hold(sk)               sock_hold(sk);
  lock_sock(sk)   <-- block close()
  sock_put(sk)
  bt_accept_unlink(sk)
    sock_put(sk)  <-- refcnt by bt_accept_enqueue()
  release_sock(sk)
                              lock_sock(sk)
                              sock_put(sk)
                              bt_accept_unlink(sk)
                                sock_put(sk)        <-- last refcnt
                              bt_accept_unlink(sk)  <-- UAF

Depending on the timing, the other thread could show up in the
"Freed by task" part.

Let's call l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() under lock_sock() in
l2cap_sock_release().

[0]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:86 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_raw_spin_lock+0x26f/0x2b0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:115
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88803b7eb1c4 by task syz.5.3276/16995
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 16995 Comm: syz.5.3276 Not tainted syzkaller #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
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xcd/0x630 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:86 [inline]
 do_raw_spin_lock+0x26f/0x2b0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:115
 spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:356 [inline]
 release_sock+0x21/0x220 net/core/sock.c:3746
 bt_accept_dequeue+0x505/0x600 net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c:312
 l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen+0x5c/0x2a0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1451
 l2cap_sock_release+0x5c/0x210 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1425
 __sock_release+0xb3/0x270 net/socket.c:649
 sock_close+0x1c/0x30 net/socket.c:1439
 __fput+0x3ff/0xb70 fs/file_table.c:468
 task_work_run+0x14d/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:227
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xeb/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:43
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3f6/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f2accf8ebe9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffdb6cb1378 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX:[PII_REDACTED]0001b4
RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX:[PII_REDACTED]0426fb RCX: 00007f2accf8ebe9
RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI:[PII_REDACTED]00001e RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP: 00007f2acd1b7da0 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: 00000012b6cb166f
R10: 0000001b30e20000 R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: 00007f2acd1b609c
R13: 00007f2acd1b6090 R14: ffffffffffffffff R15: 00007ffdb6cb1490
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5326:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:47
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:388 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:405
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4365 [inline]
 __kmalloc_nopro
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 7.8 (HIGH)
CWE: CWE-416
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ca99fc3512a8074de20ee52a87b492dfcc41a4d; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/306b0991413b482dbf5585b423022123bb505966; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3dff390f55ccd9ce12e[PII_REDACTED]9b5312180c2