CVE-2025-38118

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38118
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38118.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38118
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-03T08:35:25.992Z
Modified
2026-05-15T11:54:02.753836389Z
Summary
Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix UAF on mgmt_remove_adv_monitor_complete
Details

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

Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix UAF on mgmtremoveadvmonitorcomplete

This reworks MGMTOPREMOVEADVMONITOR to not use mgmtpendingadd to avoid crashes like bellow:

================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mgmtremoveadvmonitorcomplete+0xe5/0x540 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5406 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801c53f318 by task kworker/u5:5/5341

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5341 Comm: kworker/u5:5 Not tainted 6.15.0-syzkaller-10402-g4cb6c8af8591 #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014 Workqueue: hci0 hcicmdsyncwork Call Trace: <TASK> dumpstacklvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dumpstack.c:120 printaddressdescription mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline] printreport+0xd2/0x2b0 mm/kasan/report.c:521 kasanreport+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:634 mgmtremoveadvmonitorcomplete+0xe5/0x540 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5406 hcicmdsyncwork+0x261/0x3a0 net/bluetooth/hcisync.c:334 processonework kernel/workqueue.c:3238 [inline] processscheduledworks+0xade/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3321 workerthread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3402 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:464 retfromfork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148 retfromforkasm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5987: kasansavestack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline] kasansavetrack+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68 poisonkmallocredzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline] __kasankmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394 kasankmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline] __kmalloccachenoprof+0x230/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:4358 kmallocnoprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline] kzallocnoprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline] mgmtpendingnew+0x65/0x240 net/bluetooth/mgmtutil.c:252 mgmtpendingadd+0x34/0x120 net/bluetooth/mgmtutil.c:279 removeadvmonitor+0x103/0x1b0 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5454 hcimgmtcmd+0x9c9/0xef0 net/bluetooth/hcisock.c:1719 hcisocksendmsg+0x6ca/0xef0 net/bluetooth/hcisock.c:1839 socksendmsgnosec net/socket.c:712 [inline] __socksendmsg+0x219/0x270 net/socket.c:727 sockwriteiter+0x258/0x330 net/socket.c:1131 newsyncwrite fs/readwrite.c:593 [inline] vfswrite+0x548/0xa90 fs/readwrite.c:686 ksyswrite+0x145/0x250 fs/readwrite.c:738 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/syscall64.c:63 [inline] dosyscall64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall64.c:94 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 5989: kasansavestack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline] kasansavetrack+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68 kasansavefreeinfo+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:576 poisonslab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline] __kasanslabfree+0x62/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264 kasanslabfree include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline] slabfreehook mm/slub.c:2380 [inline] slabfree mm/slub.c:4642 [inline] kfree+0x18e/0x440 mm/slub.c:4841 mgmtpendingforeach+0xc9/0x120 net/bluetooth/mgmtutil.c:242 mgmtindexremoved+0x10d/0x2f0 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:9366 hcisockbind+0xbe9/0x1000 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1314 __sysbindsocket net/socket.c:1810 [inline] __sys_bind+0x2c3/0x3e0 net/socket.c:1841 __dosysbind net/socket.c:1846 [inline] __sesysbind net/socket.c:1844 [inline] __x64sysbind+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1844 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/syscall64.c:63 [inline] dosyscall64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall64.c:94 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x77/0x7f

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38118.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.12.0
Fixed
6.1.142
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.94
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.34
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.15.3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38118.json"