Bug 2334563 (CVE-2024-56654)

Summary: CVE-2024-56654 kernel: Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix using rcu_read_(un)lock while iterating
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 16:03:48 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix using rcu_read_(un)lock while iterating

The usage of rcu_read_(un)lock while inside list_for_each_entry_rcu is
not safe since for the most part entries fetched this way shall be
treated as rcu_dereference:

	Note that the value returned by rcu_dereference() is valid
	only within the enclosing RCU read-side critical section [1]_.
	For example, the following is **not** legal::

		rcu_read_lock();
		p = rcu_dereference(head.next);
		rcu_read_unlock();
		x = p->address;	/* BUG!!! */
		rcu_read_lock();
		y = p->data;	/* BUG!!! */
		rcu_read_unlock();
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-28 01:49:40 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122749-CVE-2024-56654-66a1@gregkh/T
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:37:53 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