Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: l2cap: fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_chan_timeout
There is a race condition between l2cap_chan_timeout() and l2cap_chan_del(). When we use l2cap_chan_del() to delete the channel, the chan->conn will be set to null. But the conn could be dereferenced again in the mutex_lock() of l2cap_chan_timeout(). As a result the null pointer dereference bug will happen. The KASAN report triggered by POC is shown below:
[ 472.074580] ==================================================================
[ 472.075284] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in mutex_lock+0x68/0xc0
[ 472.075308] Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000158 by task kworker/0:0/7
[ 472.075308]
[ 472.075308] CPU: 0 PID: 7 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc5-00356-g78c0094a146b #36
[ 472.075308] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu4
[ 472.075308] Workqueue: events l2cap_chan_timeout
[ 472.075308] Call Trace:
[ 472.075308]
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel-uek @ 5.4.17 (+12 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: l2cap: fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_chan_timeout
There is a race condition between l2cap_chan_timeout() and l2cap_chan_del(). When we use l2cap_chan_del() to delete the channel, the chan->conn will be set to null. But the conn could be dereferenced again in the mutex_lock() of l2cap_chan_timeout(). As a result the null pointer dereference bug will happen. The KASAN report triggered by POC is shown below:
[ 472.074580] ==================================================================
[ 472.075284] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in mutex_lock+0x68/0xc0
[ 472.075308] Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000158 by task kworker/0:0/7
[ 472.075308]
[ 472.075308] CPU: 0 PID: 7 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc5-00356-g78c0094a146b #36
[ 472.075308] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu4
[ 472.075308] Workqueue: events l2cap_chan_timeout
[ 472.075308] Call Trace:
[ 472.075308]