Bug 2422828 (CVE-2025-68304) - CVE-2025-68304 kernel: Bluetooth: hci_core: lookup hci_conn on RX path on protocol side
Summary: CVE-2025-68304 kernel: Bluetooth: hci_core: lookup hci_conn on RX path on pro...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-68304
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-16 16:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-02-06 05:09 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-16 16:04:41 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_core: lookup hci_conn on RX path on protocol side

The hdev lock/lookup/unlock/use pattern in the packet RX path doesn't
ensure hci_conn* is not concurrently modified/deleted. This locking
appears to be leftover from before conn_hash started using RCU
commit bf4c63252490b ("Bluetooth: convert conn hash to RCU")
and not clear if it had purpose since then.

Currently, there are code paths that delete hci_conn* from elsewhere
than the ordered hdev->workqueue where the RX work runs in. E.g.
commit 5af1f84ed13a ("Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix UAF on hci_abort_conn_sync")
introduced some of these, and there probably were a few others before
it.  It's better to do the locking so that even if these run
concurrently no UAF is possible.

Move the lookup of hci_conn and associated socket-specific conn to
protocol recv handlers, and do them within a single critical section
to cover hci_conn* usage and lookup.

syzkaller has reported a crash that appears to be this issue:

    [Task hdev->workqueue]          [Task 2]
                                    hci_disconnect_all_sync
    l2cap_recv_acldata(hcon)
                                      hci_conn_get(hcon)
                                      hci_abort_conn_sync(hcon)
                                        hci_dev_lock
      hci_dev_lock
                                        hci_conn_del(hcon)
      v-------------------------------- hci_dev_unlock
                                      hci_conn_put(hcon)
      conn = hcon->l2cap_data (UAF)


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