Bug 2334495 (CVE-2024-56604)

Summary: CVE-2024-56604 kernel: Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid leaving dangling sk pointer in rfcomm_sock_alloc()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 15:05:46 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: avoid leaving dangling sk pointer in rfcomm_sock_alloc()

bt_sock_alloc() attaches allocated sk object to the provided sock object.
If rfcomm_dlc_alloc() fails, we release the sk object, but leave the
dangling pointer in the sock object, which may cause use-after-free.

Fix this by swapping calls to bt_sock_alloc() and rfcomm_dlc_alloc().
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-28 05:32:30 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122704-CVE-2024-56604-8494@gregkh/T
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:37:39 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