CVE-2025-21969: kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_send_cmd
Component: kernel
Severity: Moderate
CWE: CWE-416 (Use After Free)
CVSS v3: 7.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)
Public date: 2025-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

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

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_send_cmd

After the hci sync command releases l2cap_conn, the hci receive data work
queue references the released l2cap_conn when sending to the upper layer.
Add hci dev lock to the hci receive data work queue to synchronize the two.

[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in l2cap_send_cmd+0x187/0x8d0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:954
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880271a4000 by task kworker/u9:2/5837

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5837 Comm: kworker/u9:2 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc5-syzkaller-00163-gab75170520d4 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Workqueue: hci1 hci_rx_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489
 kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602
 l2cap_build_cmd net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:2964 [inline]
 l2cap_send_cmd+0x187/0x8d0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:954
 l2cap_sig_send_rej net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:5502 [inline]
 l2cap_sig_channel net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:5538 [inline]
 l2cap_recv_frame+0x221f/0x10db0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:6817
 hci_acldata_packet net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:3797 [inline]
 hci_rx_work+0x508/0xdb0 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4040
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa66/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
 worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
 kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5837:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x98/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x243/0x390 mm/slub.c:4329
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:901 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1037 [inline]
 l2cap_conn_add+0xa9/0x8e0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:6860
 l2cap_connect_cfm+0x115/0x1090 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7239
 hci_connect_cfm include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:2057 [inline]
 hci_remote_features_evt+0x68e/0xac0 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:3726
 hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7473 [inline]
 hci_event_packet+0xac2/0x1540 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7525
 hci_rx_work+0x3f3/0xdb0 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4035
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa66/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
 worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
 kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

Freed by task 54:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:582
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x59/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2353 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4613 [inline]
 kfree+0x196/0x430 mm/slub.c:4761
 l2cap_connect_cfm+0xcc/0x1090 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7235
 hci_connect_cfm include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:2057 [inline]
 hci_conn_failed+0x287/0x400 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:1266
 hci_abort_conn_sync+0x56c/0x11f0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5603
 hci_cmd_sync_work+0x22b/0x400 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:332
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa66/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
 worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
 kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entr
---truncated---


Affected upstream versions: 5.17.14 < 5.18, 5.18
Fixed upstream versions: 0, 5.18, 6.12.20, 6.13.8, 6.14, 6.6.84
Upstream repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Upstream fix commit: c96cce853542b3b13da3738f35ef1be8cfcc9d1d