CVE-2022-50447

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix crash on hci_create_cis_sync

When attempting to connect multiple ISO sockets without using DEFER_SETUP may result in the following crash:

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in hci_create_cis_sync+0x18b/0x2b0 Read of size 2 at addr 0000000000000036 by task kworker/u3:1/50

CPU: 0 PID: 50 Comm: kworker/u3:1 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc7-02243-gb84a13ff4eda #4373 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.0-1.fc36 04/01/2014 Workqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x19/0x27 kasan_report+0xbc/0xf0 ? hci_create_cis_sync+0x18b/0x2b0 hci_create_cis_sync+0x18b/0x2b0 ? get_link_mode+0xd0/0xd0 ? __ww_mutex_lock_slowpath+0x10/0x10 ? mutex_lock+0xe0/0xe0 ? get_link_mode+0xd0/0xd0 hci_cmd_sync_work+0x111/0x190 process_one_work+0x427/0x650 worker_thread+0x87/0x750 ? process_one_work+0x650/0x650 kthread+0x14e/0x180 ? kthread_exit+0x50/0x50 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 </TASK>

This vulnerability is rated as Moderate impact because exploitation requires local access to establish multiple Bluetooth sockets under specific connection conditions, restricting the blast radius to a denial of service via a kernel crash rather than arbitrary code execution. Typical Red Hat Enterprise Linux server installations do not utilize Bluetooth hardware or run Bluetooth services, substantially reducing exposure under default deployments. Systems are only susceptible if Bluetooth hardware is active and available to local unprivileged users.

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