Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by sco_sock_timeout
When the sco connection is established and then, the sco socket is releasing, timeout_work will be scheduled to judge whether the sco disconnection is timeout. The sock will be deallocated later, but it is dereferenced again in sco_sock_timeout. As a result, the use-after-free bugs will happen. The root cause is shown below:
Cleanup Thread | Worker Thread sco_sock_release | sco_sock_close | __sco_sock_close | sco_sock_set_timer | schedule_delayed_work | sco_sock_kill | (wait a time) sock_put(sk) //FREE | sco_sock_timeout | sock_hold(sk) //USE
The KASAN report triggered by POC is shown below:
[ 95.890016] ==================================================================
[ 95.890496] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sco_sock_timeout+0x5e/0x1c0
[ 95.890755] Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800c388080 by task kworker/0:0/7
…
[ 95.890755] Workqueue: events sco_sock_timeout
[ 95.890755] Call Trace:
[ 95.890755]
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+3 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by sco_sock_timeout
When the sco connection is established and then, the sco socket is releasing, timeout_work will be scheduled to judge whether the sco disconnection is timeout. The sock will be deallocated later, but it is dereferenced again in sco_sock_timeout. As a result, the use-after-free bugs will happen. The root cause is shown below:
Cleanup Thread | Worker Thread sco_sock_release | sco_sock_close | __sco_sock_close | sco_sock_set_timer | schedule_delayed_work | sco_sock_kill | (wait a time) sock_put(sk) //FREE | sco_sock_timeout | sock_hold(sk) //USE
The KASAN report triggered by POC is shown below:
[ 95.890016] ==================================================================
[ 95.890496] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sco_sock_timeout+0x5e/0x1c0
[ 95.890755] Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800c388080 by task kworker/0:0/7
…
[ 95.890755] Workqueue: events sco_sock_timeout
[ 95.890755] Call Trace:
[ 95.890755]