published December 16, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_sock: Prevent race in socket write iter and sock bind
There is a potential race condition between sock bind and socket write
iter. bind may free the same cmd via mgmt_pending before write iter sends
the cmd, just as syzbot reported in UAF[1].
Here we use hci_dev_lock to synchronize the two, thereby avoiding the
UAF mentioned in [1].
[1]
syzbot reported:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mgmt_pending_remove+0x3b/0x210 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:316
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888077164818 by task syz.0.17/5989
Call Trace:
mgmt_pending_remove+0x3b/0x210 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:316
set_link_security+0x5c2/0x710 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:1918
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:727 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x21c/0x270 net/socket.c:742
sock_write_iter+0x279/0x360 net/socket.c:1195
Allocated by task 5989:
mgmt_pending_add+0x35/0x140 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:296
set_link_security+0x557/0x710 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:1910
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:727 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x21c/0x270 net/socket.c:742
sock_write_iter+0x279/0x360 net/socket.c:1195
Freed by task 5991:
mgmt_pending_free net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:311 [inline]
mgmt_pending_foreach+0x30d/0x380 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:257
mgmt_index_removed+0x112/0x2f0 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:9477
hci_sock_bind+0xbe9/0x1000 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1314