vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2024-50044: Security patch for kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2025-090)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P) | 2024-10-21 | 2025-03-14 | 2025-03-14 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: RFCOMM: FIX possible deadlock in rfcomm_sk_state_change
rfcomm_sk_state_change attempts to use sock_lock so it must never be
called with it locked but rfcomm_sock_ioctl always attempt to lock it
causing the following trace:
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WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.8.0-syzkaller-08951-gfe46a7dd189e #0 Not tainted
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syz-executor386/5093 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff88807c396258 (sk_lock-AF_BLUETOOTH-BTPROTO_RFCOMM){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1671 [inline]
ffff88807c396258 (sk_lock-AF_BLUETOOTH-BTPROTO_RFCOMM){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: rfcomm_sk_state_change+0x5b/0x310 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c:73
but task is already holding lock:
ffff88807badfd28 (&d->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __rfcomm_dlc_close+0x226/0x6a0 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c:491
Solution(s)
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