CVE-2022-49908

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix memory leak in vhci_write

Medium · published May 1, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix memory leak in vhci_write

Syzkaller reports a memory leak as follows:

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BUG: memory leak

unreferenced object 0xffff88810d81ac00 (size 240):

[...]

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

[<ffffffff838733d9>] __alloc_skb+0x1f9/0x270 net/core/skbuff.c:418

[<ffffffff833f742f>] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1257 [inline]

[<ffffffff833f742f>] bt_skb_alloc include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:469 [inline]

[<ffffffff833f742f>] vhci_get_user drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:391 [inline]

[<ffffffff833f742f>] vhci_write+0x5f/0x230 drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:511

[<ffffffff815e398d>] call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2192 [inline]

[<ffffffff815e398d>] new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]

[<ffffffff815e398d>] vfs_write+0x42d/0x540 fs/read_write.c:578

[<ffffffff815e3cdd>] ksys_write+0x9d/0x160 fs/read_write.c:631

[<ffffffff845e0645>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]

[<ffffffff845e0645>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80

[<ffffffff84600087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

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HCI core will uses hci_rx_work() to process frame, which is queued to

the hdev->rx_q tail in hci_recv_frame() by HCI driver.

Yet the problem is that, HCI core may not free the skb after handling

ACL data packets. To be more specific, when start fragment does not

contain the L2CAP length, HCI core just copies skb into conn->rx_skb and

finishes frame process in l2cap_recv_acldata(), without freeing the skb,

which triggers the above memory leak.

This patch solves it by releasing the relative skb, after processing

the above case in l2cap_recv_acldata().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00199 · 9.2th percentile
Published
2025-05-01T14:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 14:10Z
    Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix memory leak in vhci_write
    cvelistv5