Bluetooth: hci_devcd_dump: fix out-of-bounds via dev_coredumpv
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_devcd_dump: fix out-of-bounds via dev_coredumpv Currently both dev_coredumpv and skb_put_data in hci_devcd_dump use hdev->dump.head. However, dev_coredumpv can free the buffer. From dev_coredumpm_timeout documentation, which is used by dev_coredumpv: > Creates a new device coredump for the given device. If a previous one hasn't > been read yet, the new coredump is discarded. The data lifetime is determined > by the device coredump framework and when it is no longer needed the @free > function will be called to free the data. If the data has not been read by the userspace yet, dev_coredumpv will discard new buffer, freeing hdev->dump.head. This leads to vmalloc-out-of-bounds error when skb_put_data tries to access hdev->dump.head. A crash report from syzbot illustrates this: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in skb_put_data include/linux/skbuff.h:2752 [inline] BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in hci_devcd_dump+0x142/0x240 net/bluetooth/coredump.c:258 Read of size 140 at addr ffffc90004ed5000 by task kworker/u9:2/5844 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5844 Comm: kworker/u9:2 Not tainted 6.14.0-syzkaller-10892-g4e82c87058f4 #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025 Workqueue: hci0 hci_devcd_timeout Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline] print_report+0xc3/0x670 mm/kasan/report.c:521 kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline] kasan_check_range+0xef/0x1a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 __asan_memcpy+0x23/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:105 skb_put_data include/linux/skbuff.h:2752 [inline] hci_devcd_dump+0x142/0x240 net/bluetooth/coredump.c:258 hci_devcd_timeout+0xb5/0x2e0 net/bluetooth/coredump.c:413 process_one_work+0x9cc/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3238 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline] worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3400 kthread+0x3c2/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:464 ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 </TASK> The buggy address ffffc90004ed5000 belongs to a vmalloc virtual mapping Memory state around the buggy address: ffffc90004ed4f00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc90004ed4f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 >ffffc90004ed5000: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ^ ffffc90004ed5080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc90004ed5100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ================================================================== To avoid this issue, reorder dev_coredumpv to be called after skb_put_data that does not free the data.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.15.10, 6.16.1, 6.17
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-38592
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3qph-5xxf-77fc
References
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Sources
- CVE-2025-38592 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-38592 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3qph-5xxf-77fc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-38592 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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