CVE-2024-36012
kernel: Bluetooth: msft: fix slab-use-after-free in msft_do_close()
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · May 23, 2024
Updated · August 5, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: msft: fix slab-use-after-free in msft_do_close()
Tying the msft->data lifetime to hdev by freeing it in hci_release_dev() to fix the following case:
[use] msft_do_close() msft = hdev->msft_data; if (!msft) ...(1) <- passed. return; mutex_lock(&msft->filter_lock); ...(4) <- used after freed.
[free] msft_unregister() msft = hdev->msft_data; hdev->msft_data = NULL; ...(2) kfree(msft); ...(3) <- msft is freed.
================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:587 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __mutex_lock+0x8f/0xc30 kernel/locking/mutex.c:752 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888106cbbca8 by task kworker/u5:2/309
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CWE-416 · Use After Free