Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix uaf in l2cap_connect
CVE: CVE-2024-49950
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-416
Severity: Moderate
CVSS v3: 7.5/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Release date: 2024-10-21T00:00:00+00:00

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

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix uaf in l2cap_connect

[Syzbot reported]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in l2cap_connect.constprop.0+0x10d8/0x1270 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:3949
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880241e9800 by task kworker/u9:0/54

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-syzkaller-00268-g788220eee30d #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/06/2024
Workqueue: hci2 hci_rx_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:93 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:119
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
 print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:488
 kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:601
 l2cap_connect.constprop.0+0x10d8/0x1270 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:3949
 l2cap_connect_req net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:4080 [inline]
 l2cap_bredr_sig_cmd net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:4772 [inline]
 l2cap_sig_channel net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:5543 [inline]
 l2cap_recv_frame+0xf0b/0x8eb0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:6825
 l2cap_recv_acldata+0x9b4/0xb70 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7514
 hci_acldata_packet net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:3791 [inline]
 hci_rx_work+0xaab/0x1610 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4028
 process_one_work+0x9c5/0x1b40 kernel/workqueue.c:3231
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3312 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x6c8/0xed0 kernel/workqueue.c:3389
 kthread+0x2c1/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:389
 ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
...

Freed by task 5245:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:47
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:579
 poison_slab_object+0xf7/0x160 mm/kasan/common.c:240
 __kasan_slab_free+0x32/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:256
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:184 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2256 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4477 [inline]
 kfree+0x12a/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:4598
 l2cap_conn_free net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:1810 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 l2cap_conn_put net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:1822 [inline]
 l2cap_conn_del+0x59d/0x730 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:1802
 l2cap_connect_cfm+0x9e6/0xf80 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7241
 hci_connect_cfm include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:1960 [inline]
 hci_conn_failed+0x1c3/0x370 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:1265
 hci_abort_conn_sync+0x75a/0xb50 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5583
 abort_conn_sync+0x197/0x360 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:2917
 hci_cmd_sync_work+0x1a4/0x410 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:328
 process_one_work+0x9c5/0x1b40 kernel/workqueue.c:3231
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3312 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x6c8/0xed0 kernel/workqueue.c:3389
 kthread+0x2c1/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:389
 ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

Statement: This issue is considered to be a moderate impact flaw, as the exploitation for this will need an ADMIN (or ROOT) privilege (PR:H).

Remediation:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.