vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2025-21969): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 1, 2025
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Oct 16, 2025

Description

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---

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