Bug 2363272 (CVE-2025-23139)

Summary: CVE-2025-23139 kernel: Bluetooth: hci_uart: Fix another race during initialization
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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[REJECTED CVE] In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_uart: Fix another race during initialization
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 14:01:36 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_uart: Fix another race during initialization

Do not set 'HCI_UART_PROTO_READY' before call 'hci_uart_register_dev()'.
Possible race is when someone calls 'hci_tty_uart_close()' after this bit
is set, but 'hci_uart_register_dev()' wasn't done. This leads to access
to uninitialized fields. To fix it let's set this bit after device was
registered (as before patch c411c62cc133) and to fix previous problem let's
add one more bit in addition to 'HCI_UART_PROTO_READY' which allows to
perform power up without original bit set (pls see commit c411c62cc133).

Crash backtrace from syzbot report:

RIP: 0010:skb_queue_empty_lockless include/linux/skbuff.h:1887 [inline]
RIP: 0010:skb_queue_purge_reason+0x6d/0x140 net/core/skbuff.c:3936

Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 skb_queue_purge include/linux/skbuff.h:3364 [inline]
 mrvl_close+0x2f/0x90 drivers/bluetooth/hci_mrvl.c:100
 hci_uart_tty_close+0xb6/0x120 drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c:557
 tty_ldisc_close drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:455 [inline]
 tty_ldisc_kill+0x66/0xc0 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:613
 tty_ldisc_release+0xc9/0x120 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:781
 tty_release_struct+0x10/0x80 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1690
 tty_release+0x4ef/0x640 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1861
 __fput+0x86/0x2a0 fs/file_table.c:450
 task_work_run+0x82/0xb0 kernel/task_work.c:239
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:114 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:329 [inline]
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xa3/0x1b0 kernel/entry/common.c:218
 do_syscall_64+0x9a/0x190 arch/x86/entry/common.c:89
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:18:18 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050121-CVE-2025-23139-3932@gregkh/T

Comment 2 TEJ RATHI 2025-05-29 06:42:13 UTC
This CVE has been rejected by the Linux kernel community. Refer to the announcement: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050840-REJECTED-afac@gregkh/

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