High · published October 15, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix possible UAFs
This attemps to fix possible UAFs caused by struct mgmt_pending being
freed while still being processed like in the following trace, in order
to fix mgmt_pending_valid is introduce and use to check if the
mgmt_pending hasn't been removed from the pending list, on the complete
callbacks it is used to check and in addtion remove the cmd from the list
while holding mgmt_pending_lock to avoid TOCTOU problems since if the cmd
is left on the list it can still be accessed and freed.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mgmt_add_adv_patterns_monitor_sync+0x35/0x50 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5223
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880709d4dc0 by task kworker/u11:0/55
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 55 Comm: kworker/u11:0 Not tainted 6.16.4 #2 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
mgmt_add_adv_patterns_monitor_sync+0x35/0x50 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5223
hci_cmd_sync_work+0x210/0x3a0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:332
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3238 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xade/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3321
worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3402
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:464
ret_from_fork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 home/kwqcheii/source/fuzzing/kernel/kasan/linux-6.16.4/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>
Allocated by task 12210:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x230/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:4364
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
mgmt_pending_new+0x65/0x1e0 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:269
mgmt_pending_add+0x35/0x140 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:296
__add_adv_patterns_monitor+0x130/0x200 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5247
add_adv_patterns_monitor+0x214/0x360 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5364
hci_mgmt_cmd+0x9c9/0xef0 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1719
hci_sock_sendmsg+0x6ca/0xef0 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1839
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x219/0x270 net/socket.c:729
sock_write_iter+0x258/0x330 net/socket.c:1133
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
vfs_write+0x5c9/0xb30 fs/read_write.c:686
ksys_write+0x145/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Freed by task 12221:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x62/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2381 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:4648 [inline]
kfree+0x18e/0x440 mm/slub.c:4847
mgmt_pending_free net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:311 [inline]
mgmt_pending_foreach+0x30d/0x380 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:257
__mgmt_power_off+0x169/0x350 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:9444
hci_dev_close_sync+0x754/0x1330 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5290
hci_dev_do_close net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:501 [inline]
hci_dev_close+0x108/0x200 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:526
sock_do_ioctl+0xd9/0x300 net/socket.c:1192
sock_ioctl+0x576/0x790 net/socket.c:1313
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf
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