CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-42132

HighCVSS 7.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.23%

13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a bug in the Bluetooth HCI stack allowed setting a handle larger than HCI_CONN_HANDLE_MAX, causing a warning when freeing an incorrectly allocated handle, potentially destabilizing the system.

Risk Assessment

Potential system destabilization or crash due to improper Bluetooth connection handle management, leading to denial of service (DoS).

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix. If not possible, apply the security patch available for your distribution.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bluetooth/hci: disallow setting handle bigger than HCI_CONN_HANDLE_MAX Syzbot hit warning in hci_conn_del() caused by freeing handle that was not allocated using ida allocator. This is caused by handle bigger than HCI_CONN_HANDLE_MAX passed by hci_le_big_sync_established_evt(), which makes code think it's unset connection. Add same check for handle upper bound as in hci_conn_set_handle() to prevent warning.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS