CVE-2025-38592

Bluetooth: hci_devcd_dump: fix out-of-bounds via dev_coredumpv

published August 19, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

Bluetooth: hci_devcd_dump: fix out-of-bounds via dev_coredumpv

Currently both dev_coredumpv and skb_put_data in hci_devcd_dump use

hdev->dump.head. However, dev_coredumpv can free the buffer. From

dev_coredumpm_timeout documentation, which is used by dev_coredumpv:

> Creates a new device coredump for the given device. If a previous one hasn't

> been read yet, the new coredump is discarded. The data lifetime is determined

> by the device coredump framework and when it is no longer needed the @free

> function will be called to free the data.

If the data has not been read by the userspace yet, dev_coredumpv will

discard new buffer, freeing hdev->dump.head. This leads to

vmalloc-out-of-bounds error when skb_put_data tries to access

hdev->dump.head.

A crash report from syzbot illustrates this:

==================================================================

BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in skb_put_data

include/linux/skbuff.h:2752 [inline]

BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in hci_devcd_dump+0x142/0x240

net/bluetooth/coredump.c:258

Read of size 140 at addr ffffc90004ed5000 by task kworker/u9:2/5844

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5844 Comm: kworker/u9:2 Not tainted

6.14.0-syzkaller-10892-g4e82c87058f4 #0 PREEMPT(full)

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS

Google 02/12/2025

Workqueue: hci0 hci_devcd_timeout

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]

dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120

print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]

print_report+0xc3/0x670 mm/kasan/report.c:521

kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634

check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline]

kasan_check_range+0xef/0x1a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189

__asan_memcpy+0x23/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:105

skb_put_data include/linux/skbuff.h:2752 [inline]

hci_devcd_dump+0x142/0x240 net/bluetooth/coredump.c:258

hci_devcd_timeout+0xb5/0x2e0 net/bluetooth/coredump.c:413

process_one_work+0x9cc/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3238

process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline]

worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3400

kthread+0x3c2/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:464

ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153

ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

</TASK>

The buggy address ffffc90004ed5000 belongs to a vmalloc virtual mapping

Memory state around the buggy address:

ffffc90004ed4f00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

ffffc90004ed4f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

>ffffc90004ed5000: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

^

ffffc90004ed5080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

ffffc90004ed5100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

==================================================================

To avoid this issue, reorder dev_coredumpv to be called after

skb_put_data that does not free the data.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00234 · 13.4th percentile
Published
2025-08-19T17:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 17:03Z
    Bluetooth: hci_devcd_dump: fix out-of-bounds via dev_coredumpv
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