CVE-2025-39983
CVE-2025-39983CVE-2025-39983
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix UAF in hci_conn_tx_dequeue
This fixes the following UAF caused by not properly locking hdev when
processing HCI_EV_NUM_COMP_PKTS:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hci_conn_tx_dequeue+0x1be/0x220 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:3036
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880740f0940 by task kworker/u11:0/54
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/u11:0 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc7 #3 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: hci1 hci_rx_work
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xca/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:480
kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:593
hci_conn_tx_dequeue+0x1be/0x220 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:3036
hci_num_comp_pkts_evt+0x1c8/0xa50 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:4404
hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7477 [inline]
hci_e
Scoring
| CVSS | 8.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-07-30 |