Bug 2320594 (CVE-2024-50044)

Summary: CVE-2024-50044 kernel: Bluetooth: RFCOMM: FIX possible deadlock in rfcomm_sk_state_change
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-10-21 20:01:59 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: FIX possible deadlock in rfcomm_sk_state_change

rfcomm_sk_state_change attempts to use sock_lock so it must never be
called with it locked but rfcomm_sock_ioctl always attempt to lock it
causing the following trace:

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WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.8.0-syzkaller-08951-gfe46a7dd189e #0 Not tainted
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syz-executor386/5093 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff88807c396258 (sk_lock-AF_BLUETOOTH-BTPROTO_RFCOMM){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1671 [inline]
ffff88807c396258 (sk_lock-AF_BLUETOOTH-BTPROTO_RFCOMM){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: rfcomm_sk_state_change+0x5b/0x310 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c:73

but task is already holding lock:
ffff88807badfd28 (&d->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __rfcomm_dlc_close+0x226/0x6a0 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c:491

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-10-22 11:22:08 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102133-CVE-2024-50044-2ee1@gregkh/T

Comment 2 Avinash Hanwate 2024-10-22 12:49:00 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102133-CVE-2024-50044-2ee1@gregkh/T

Comment 3 Avinash Hanwate 2024-10-22 12:52:57 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102133-CVE-2024-50044-2ee1@gregkh/T

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:31:03 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966