CVE-2026-99011 (GCVE-0-2026-99011)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-23 12:20
Modified
2026-10-24 14:09
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: SCO: serialise sco_conn lifetime against sco_recv_scodata() sco_recv_scodata() upgrades the weak hcon->sco_data back-pointer to a strong reference under hdev->lock: hci_dev_lock(hdev); hcon = hci_conn_hash_lookup_handle(hdev, handle); ... conn = sco_conn_hold_unless_zero(hcon->sco_data); hci_dev_unlock(hdev); but the pointer is cleared from the other side without that lock. When the last sco_conn reference is dropped, sco_conn_free() ran conn->hcon->sco_data = NULL; with no hdev->lock held, so the RX path could read hcon->sco_data and call kref_get_unless_zero() on an sco_conn that was concurrently freed: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sco_conn_hold_unless_zero+0xbe/0x160 Write of size 4 by task kworker/u17:0 Workqueue: hci0 hci_rx_work Call Trace: sco_conn_hold_unless_zero+0xbe/0x160 sco_recv_scodata+0x13f/0x490 hci_rx_work+0x3af/0x730 kref_get_unless_zero() only guards against a zero refcount, not against the backing memory already being freed. Give hcon->sco_data an actual reference on the sco_conn it points to, so the object cannot be freed while the pointer is still installed, and only clear and drop it from sco_conn_del(), which runs under hdev->lock (its callers, sco_connect_cfm() and sco_disconn_cfm(), hold it). The reader in sco_recv_scodata() also takes hdev->lock, so the store and the read are now serialised: the RX path either observes NULL or a reference that is guaranteed to stay valid until it drops its own. sco_conn_add() no longer hands its kref_init() reference to the caller as the connection's only reference; that initial reference is the one owned by hcon->sco_data, and callers get their own via sco_conn_hold(). Because the sco_conn can now outlive the socket (the association keeps it alive until the link goes down), the hci_conn can no longer be dropped from sco_conn_free() without regressing socket close: closing a connected SCO socket must still tear the link down. Move hci_conn ownership to the socket instead: __sco_chan_add() takes an hci_conn reference and it is released from sco_chan_del() and sco_sock_destruct(), exactly once. The sco_conn no longer owns an hci_conn reference, so sco_conn_add() stops consuming one and sco_connect() drops the hci_connect_sco() reference on every path; sco_connect_cfm() no longer needs its hci_conn_hold() dance.
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Version: e6720779ae612a14ac4ba7fe4fd5b27d900d932c
Version: e6720779ae612a14ac4ba7fe4fd5b27d900d932c
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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: SCO: serialise sco_conn lifetime against sco_recv_scodata()\n\nsco_recv_scodata() upgrades the weak hcon-\u003esco_data back-pointer to a\nstrong reference under hdev-\u003elock:\n\n    hci_dev_lock(hdev);\n    hcon = hci_conn_hash_lookup_handle(hdev, handle);\n    ...\n    conn = sco_conn_hold_unless_zero(hcon-\u003esco_data);\n    hci_dev_unlock(hdev);\n\nbut the pointer is cleared from the other side without that lock. When\nthe last sco_conn reference is dropped, sco_conn_free() ran\n\n    conn-\u003ehcon-\u003esco_data = NULL;\n\nwith no hdev-\u003elock held, so the RX path could read hcon-\u003esco_data and\ncall kref_get_unless_zero() on an sco_conn that was concurrently freed:\n\n    BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sco_conn_hold_unless_zero+0xbe/0x160\n    Write of size 4 by task kworker/u17:0\n    Workqueue: hci0 hci_rx_work\n    Call Trace:\n     sco_conn_hold_unless_zero+0xbe/0x160\n     sco_recv_scodata+0x13f/0x490\n     hci_rx_work+0x3af/0x730\n\nkref_get_unless_zero() only guards against a zero refcount, not against\nthe backing memory already being freed.\n\nGive hcon-\u003esco_data an actual reference on the sco_conn it points to, so\nthe object cannot be freed while the pointer is still installed, and only\nclear and drop it from sco_conn_del(), which runs under hdev-\u003elock (its\ncallers, sco_connect_cfm() and sco_disconn_cfm(), hold it). The reader in\nsco_recv_scodata() also takes hdev-\u003elock, so the store and the read are\nnow serialised: the RX path either observes NULL or a reference that is\nguaranteed to stay valid until it drops its own.\n\nsco_conn_add() no longer hands its kref_init() reference to the caller as\nthe connection\u0027s only reference; that initial reference is the one owned\nby hcon-\u003esco_data, and callers get their own via sco_conn_hold().\n\nBecause the sco_conn can now outlive the socket (the association keeps it\nalive until the link goes down), the hci_conn can no longer be dropped\nfrom sco_conn_free() without regressing socket close: closing a connected\nSCO socket must still tear the link down. Move hci_conn ownership to the\nsocket instead: __sco_chan_add() takes an hci_conn reference and it is\nreleased from sco_chan_del() and sco_sock_destruct(), exactly once. The\nsco_conn no longer owns an hci_conn reference, so sco_conn_add() stops\nconsuming one and sco_connect() drops the hci_connect_sco() reference on\nevery path; sco_connect_cfm() no longer needs its hci_conn_hold() dance."
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              "value": "AV:A - An in-range peer\u0027s Bluetooth SCO/eSCO data enters as HCI_SCODATA_PKT through hci_recv_frame() \u2192 hci_rx_work() \u2192 hci_scodata_packet() \u2192 the patched sco_recv_scodata(). The radio-range transport makes the vector Adjacent.\nAC:H - Peer-induced Disconnection Complete runs on the same ordered HCI workqueue and calls sco_conn_del() under hdev-\u003elock, so it cannot create this race. Exploitation must instead coincide with local close()/shutdown() freeing the sco_conn outside that lock, timing the peer cannot control.\nPR:N - hci_scodata_packet() and sco_recv_scodata() impose no peer credential or capability check once a SCO/eSCO handle exists. For inbound setup, sco_connect_ind() checks only for a listening SCO socket, not authentication.\nUI:R - The last reference must be dropped through victim-side sco_sock_release() or sco_sock_shutdown() while peer data is received. Because peer-driven sco_disconn_cfm() is serialized against receive processing, a separate victim socket teardown is required.\nS:U - The stale hcon-\u003esco_data pointer corrupts a freed sco_conn inside the host Bluetooth kernel stack; it does not cross a VM, IOMMU, or other security-authority boundary.\nC:H - After sco_conn_hold_unless_zero() revives reclaimed storage, sco_recv_frame() reads the reused conn-\u003esk pointer and socket state. Heap grooming can therefore turn the sco_conn UAF into kernel-memory disclosure.\nI:H - kref_get_unless_zero() performs a four-byte atomic increment in the freed sco_conn, followed on success by spinlock and kref operations on reclaimed storage. Reuse can convert these writes into kernel heap corruption and control-flow hijacking.\nA:H - The demonstrated stale reference causes a KASAN slab-use-after-free write in sco_conn_hold_unless_zero() from hci_rx_work; such corruption can produce an oops or kernel panic."
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