CVE-2025-68304

Bluetooth: hci_core: lookup hci_conn on RX path on protocol side

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Dec 16, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Dec 16, 2025

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Description

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

Bluetooth: hci_core: lookup hci_conn on RX path on protocol side

The hdev lock/lookup/unlock/use pattern in the packet RX path doesn't ensure hci_conn* is not concurrently modified/deleted. This locking appears to be leftover from before conn_hash started using RCU commit bf4c63252490b ("Bluetooth: convert conn hash to RCU") and not clear if it had purpose since then.

Currently, there are code paths that delete hci_conn* from elsewhere than the ordered hdev->workqueue where the RX work runs in. E.g. commit 5af1f84ed13a ("Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix UAF on hci_abort_conn_sync") introduced some of these, and there probably were a few others before it. It's better to do the locking so that even if these run concurrently no UAF is possible.

Move the lookup of hci_conn and associated socket-specific conn to protocol recv handlers, and do them within a single critical section to cover hci_conn* usage and lookup.

syzkaller has reported a crash that appears to be this issue:

[Task hdev->workqueue] [Task 2] hci_disconnect_all_sync l2cap_recv_acldata(hcon) hci_conn_get(hcon) hci_abort_conn_sync(hcon) hci_dev_lock hci_dev_lock hci_conn_del(hcon) v-------------------------------- hci_dev_unlock hci_conn_put(hcon) conn = hcon->l2cap_data (UAF)

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5af1f84ed13a416297ab9ced7537f4d5ae7f329a to before ec74cdf77310c43b01b83ee898a9bd4b4b0b8e93Affected
  • 5af1f84ed13a416297ab9ced7537f4d5ae7f329a to before 79a2d4678ba90bdba577dc3af88cc900d6dcd5eeAffected
  • cd55c13bbb3d093ae601aa97e588ed4c1390ebb1Affected
  • 4d3ca4a9aaf0aa798a6be372dc0fc3a29e37dd57Affected
  • 80265dd1d944c3f33e52375b5dbe654980bd2688Affected
  • 6.1.149 to before 6.2Affected
  • 6.4.16 to before 6.5Affected
  • 6.5.3 to before 6.6Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.6Affected
  • before 6.6Not affected
  • 6.17.11 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

References

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