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Unreviewed Published Oct 15, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 24, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix possible UAFs

This attemps to fix possible UAFs caused by struct mgmt_pending being
freed while still being processed like in the following trace, in order
to fix mgmt_pending_valid is introduce and use to check if the
mgmt_pending hasn't been removed from the pending list, on the complete
callbacks it is used to check and in addtion remove the cmd from the list
while holding mgmt_pending_lock to avoid TOCTOU problems since if the cmd
is left on the list it can still be accessed and freed.

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mgmt_add_adv_patterns_monitor_sync+0x35/0x50 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5223
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880709d4dc0 by task kworker/u11:0/55

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 55 Comm: kworker/u11:0 Not tainted 6.16.4 #2 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
mgmt_add_adv_patterns_monitor_sync+0x35/0x50 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5223
hci_cmd_sync_work+0x210/0x3a0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:332
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3238 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xade/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3321
worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3402
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:464
ret_from_fork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 home/kwqcheii/source/fuzzing/kernel/kasan/linux-6.16.4/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Allocated by task 12210:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x230/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:4364
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
mgmt_pending_new+0x65/0x1e0 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:269
mgmt_pending_add+0x35/0x140 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:296
__add_adv_patterns_monitor+0x130/0x200 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5247
add_adv_patterns_monitor+0x214/0x360 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5364
hci_mgmt_cmd+0x9c9/0xef0 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1719
hci_sock_sendmsg+0x6ca/0xef0 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1839
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x219/0x270 net/socket.c:729
sock_write_iter+0x258/0x330 net/socket.c:1133
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
vfs_write+0x5c9/0xb30 fs/read_write.c:686
ksys_write+0x145/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 12221:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x62/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2381 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:4648 [inline]
kfree+0x18e/0x440 mm/slub.c:4847
mgmt_pending_free net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:311 [inline]
mgmt_pending_foreach+0x30d/0x380 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:257
__mgmt_power_off+0x169/0x350 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:9444
hci_dev_close_sync+0x754/0x1330 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5290
hci_dev_do_close net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:501 [inline]
hci_dev_close+0x108/0x200 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:526
sock_do_ioctl+0xd9/0x300 net/socket.c:1192
sock_ioctl+0x576/0x790 net/socket.c:1313
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf
---truncated---

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 15, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 15, 2025
Last updated Nov 24, 2025

Severity

Unknown

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2025-39981

GHSA ID

GHSA-rvm4-4vv7-vq58

Source code

No known source code

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