CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-58009

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

10th percentile - higher than 10% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the Bluetooth L2CAP subsystem's l2cap_sock_alloc() can receive a NULL sock pointer when called from l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb(). Error handling paths do not check for this, leading to potential NULL dereference.

Risk Assessment

This can cause system crashes (kernel panic) or other security issues during Bluetooth L2CAP connection establishment.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that adds a NULL check in l2cap_sock_alloc().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: handle NULL sock pointer in l2cap_sock_alloc A NULL sock pointer is passed into l2cap_sock_alloc() when it is called from l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb() and the error handling paths should also be aware of it. Seemingly a more elegant solution would be to swap bt_sock_alloc() and l2cap_chan_create() calls since they are not interdependent to that moment but then l2cap_chan_create() adds the soon to be deallocated and still dummy-initialized channel to the global list accessible by many L2CAP paths. The channel would be removed from the list in short period of time but be a bit more straight-forward here and just check for NULL instead of changing the order of function calls. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE static analysis tool.

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