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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 7, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix memory leak in vhci_write

Syzkaller reports a memory leak as follows:

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810d81ac00 (size 240):
[...]
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[] __alloc_skb+0x1f9/0x270 net/core/skbuff.c:418
[] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1257 [inline]
[] bt_skb_alloc include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:469 [inline]
[] vhci_get_user drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:391 [inline]
[] vhci_write+0x5f/0x230 drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:511
[] call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2192 [inline]
[] new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
[] vfs_write+0x42d/0x540 fs/read_write.c:578
[] ksys_write+0x9d/0x160 fs/read_write.c:631
[] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

HCI core will uses hci_rx_work() to process frame, which is queued to
the hdev->rx_q tail in hci_recv_frame() by HCI driver.

Yet the problem is that, HCI core may not free the skb after handling
ACL data packets. To be more specific, when start fragment does not
contain the L2CAP length, HCI core just copies skb into conn->rx_skb and
finishes frame process in l2cap_recv_acldata(), without freeing the skb,
which triggers the above memory leak.

This patch solves it by releasing the relative skb, after processing
the above case in l2cap_recv_acldata().

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 1, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2025
Last updated May 7, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(2nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-49908

GHSA ID

GHSA-p98w-xrc8-4w6x

Source code

No known source code

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