CVE-2024-49950

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Moderate Moderate Impact What does this mean?
6.8 CVSS v3 Base Score

Description

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix uaf in l2cap_connect [Syzbot reported] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in l2cap_connect.constprop.0+0x10d8/0x1270 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:3949 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880241e9800 by task kworker/u9:0/54 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-syzkaller-00268-g788220eee30d #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/06/2024 Workqueue: hci2 hci_rx_work Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:93 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:119 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline] print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:488 kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:601 l2cap_connect.constprop.0+0x10d8/0x1270 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:3949 l2cap_connect_req net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:4080 [inline] l2cap_bredr_sig_cmd net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:4772 [inline] l2cap_sig_channel net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:5543 [inline] l2cap_recv_frame+0xf0b/0x8eb0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:6825 l2cap_recv_acldata+0x9b4/0xb70 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7514 hci_acldata_packet net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:3791 [inline] hci_rx_work+0xaab/0x1610 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4028 process_one_work+0x9c5/0x1b40 kernel/workqueue.c:3231 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3312 [inline] worker_thread+0x6c8/0xed0 kernel/workqueue.c:3389 kthread+0x2c1/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:389 ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244 ... Freed by task 5245: kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:47 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:68 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:579 poison_slab_object+0xf7/0x160 mm/kasan/common.c:240 __kasan_slab_free+0x32/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:256 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:184 [inline] slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2256 [inline] slab_free mm/slub.c:4477 [inline] kfree+0x12a/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:4598 l2cap_conn_free net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:1810 [inline] kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline] l2cap_conn_put net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:1822 [inline] l2cap_conn_del+0x59d/0x730 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:1802 l2cap_connect_cfm+0x9e6/0xf80 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7241 hci_connect_cfm include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:1960 [inline] hci_conn_failed+0x1c3/0x370 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:1265 hci_abort_conn_sync+0x75a/0xb50 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5583 abort_conn_sync+0x197/0x360 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:2917 hci_cmd_sync_work+0x1a4/0x410 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:328 process_one_work+0x9c5/0x1b40 kernel/workqueue.c:3231 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3312 [inline] worker_thread+0x6c8/0xed0 kernel/workqueue.c:3389 kthread+0x2c1/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:389 ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

Statement

This issue is considered to be a moderate impact flaw, as the exploitation for this will need an ADMIN (or ROOT) privilege (PR:H).

Additional Information

External References

Content from www.cve.org is not included.https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49950

Content from nvd.nist.gov is not included.https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49950

Content from lore.kernel.org is not included.https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102129-CVE-2024-49950-bbf4@gregkh/T

Affected Packages and Issued Red Hat Security Errata

Products / Services Components State Errata
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel-rt Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel-rt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel Fixed RHSA-2025:6966
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt Will not fix
Unless explicitly stated as not affected, all previous versions of packages in any minor update stream of a product listed here should be assumed vulnerable, although may not have been subject to full analysis.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Important note

CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authorities (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications ).

CVSS v3 Score Breakdown Red Hat NVD
CVSS v3 Base Score 6.8 7.8
Attack Vector Adjacent Network Local
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required High Low
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact High High

CVSS v3 Vector

Red Hat CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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