High · published December 8, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix UAF in hci_disconnect_all_sync
Use-after-free can occur in hci_disconnect_all_sync if a connection is
deleted by concurrent processing of a controller event.
To prevent this the code now tries to iterate over the list backwards
to ensure the links are cleanup before its parents, also it no longer
relies on a cursor, instead it always uses the last element since
hci_abort_conn_sync is guaranteed to call hci_conn_del.
UAF crash log:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hci_set_powered_sync
(net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5424) [bluetooth]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888009d9c000 by task kworker/u9:0/124
CPU: 0 PID: 124 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Tainted: G W
6.5.0-rc1+ #10
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS
1.16.2-1.fc38 04/01/2014
Workqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work [bluetooth]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x5b/0x90
print_report+0xcf/0x670
? __virt_addr_valid+0xdd/0x160
? hci_set_powered_sync+0x2c9/0x4a0 [bluetooth]
kasan_report+0xa6/0xe0
? hci_set_powered_sync+0x2c9/0x4a0 [bluetooth]
? __pfx_set_powered_sync+0x10/0x10 [bluetooth]
hci_set_powered_sync+0x2c9/0x4a0 [bluetooth]
? __pfx_hci_set_powered_sync+0x10/0x10 [bluetooth]
? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_set_powered_sync+0x10/0x10 [bluetooth]
hci_cmd_sync_work+0x137/0x220 [bluetooth]
process_one_work+0x526/0x9d0
? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_do_raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10
? mark_held_locks+0x1a/0x90
worker_thread+0x92/0x630
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0x196/0x1e0
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
</TASK>
Allocated by task 1782:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
hci_conn_add+0xa5/0xa80 [bluetooth]
hci_bind_cis+0x881/0x9b0 [bluetooth]
iso_connect_cis+0x121/0x520 [bluetooth]
iso_sock_connect+0x3f6/0x790 [bluetooth]
__sys_connect+0x109/0x130
__x64_sys_connect+0x40/0x50
do_syscall_64+0x60/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
Freed by task 695:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x2b/0x50
__kasan_slab_free+0x10a/0x180
__kmem_cache_free+0x14d/0x2e0
device_release+0x5d/0xf0
kobject_put+0xdf/0x270
hci_disconn_complete_evt+0x274/0x3a0 [bluetooth]
hci_event_packet+0x579/0x7e0 [bluetooth]
hci_rx_work+0x287/0xaa0 [bluetooth]
process_one_work+0x526/0x9d0
worker_thread+0x92/0x630
kthread+0x196/0x1e0
ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
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