Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: bcsp: receive data only if registered
Currently, bcsp_recv() can be called even when the BCSP protocol has not been registered. This leads to a NULL pointer dereference, as shown in the following stack trace:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000108-0x000000000000010f]
RIP: 0010:bcsp_recv+0x13d/0x1740 drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcsp.c:590
Call Trace:
To prevent this, ensure that the HCI_UART_REGISTERED flag is set before processing received data. If the protocol is not registered, return -EUNATCH.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 5.14.0 (+8 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU | Planned | — |
| AlmaLinux 9.6 ESU | Released |
11 kernels
|
| Debian 11 | Released |
36 kernels
|
| Debian 11 cloud | Released |
16 kernels
|
| Debian 12 | Released |
32 kernels
|
| Debian 13 | Will Not Fix | — |
| Oracle Linux 7 UEK 6 | Released |
112 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 8 UEK 6 | Released |
143 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 8 UEK 7 | Released |
83 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 | Released |
83 kernels
|
| Proxmox VE 7 5.15 | Released |
47 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 HWE AWS | Released |
57 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 HWE Azure | Released |
40 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Released |
90 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 AWS | Released |
81 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 Azure | Released |
73 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Released |
39 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 24.04 AWS | Planned | — |