CVE-2022-49908

EUVD-2025-12865
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix memory leak in vhci_write

Syzkaller reports a memory leak as follows:
====================================
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810d81ac00 (size 240):
  [...]
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff838733d9>] __alloc_skb+0x1f9/0x270 net/core/skbuff.c:418
    [<ffffffff833f742f>] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1257 [inline]
    [<ffffffff833f742f>] bt_skb_alloc include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h:469 [inline]
    [<ffffffff833f742f>] vhci_get_user drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:391 [inline]
    [<ffffffff833f742f>] vhci_write+0x5f/0x230 drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:511
    [<ffffffff815e398d>] call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2192 [inline]
    [<ffffffff815e398d>] new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
    [<ffffffff815e398d>] vfs_write+0x42d/0x540 fs/read_write.c:578
    [<ffffffff815e3cdd>] ksys_write+0x9d/0x160 fs/read_write.c:631
    [<ffffffff845e0645>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
    [<ffffffff845e0645>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
    [<ffffffff84600087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
====================================

HCI core will uses hci_rx_work() to process frame, which is queued to
the hdev->rx_q tail in hci_recv_frame() by HCI driver.

Yet the problem is that, HCI core may not free the skb after handling
ACL data packets. To be more specific, when start fragment does not
contain the L2CAP length, HCI core just copies skb into conn->rx_skb and
finishes frame process in l2cap_recv_acldata(), without freeing the skb,
which triggers the above memory leak.

This patch solves it by releasing the relative skb, after processing
the above case in l2cap_recv_acldata().
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA-ADPADP
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 15%
Affected Products (NVD)
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
5.12 ≤
𝑥
< 5.15.78
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16 ≤
𝑥
< 6.0.8
linuxlinux_kernel
6.1:rc1
linuxlinux_kernel
6.1:rc2
linuxlinux_kernel
6.1:rc3
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
Debian logo
Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
linux
bookworm
6.1.129-1
fixed
bookworm (security)
6.1.135-1
fixed
bullseye
5.10.223-1
not-affected
bullseye (security)
5.10.234-1
fixed
sid
6.12.25-1
fixed
trixie
6.12.22-1
fixed
Ubuntu logo
Ubuntu Releases
Ubuntu Product
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linux
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oracular
dne
plucky
dne
linux-starfive-6.5
focal
dne
jammy
ignored
noble
dne
oracular
dne
plucky
dne
linux-xilinx-zynqmp
focal
needs-triage
jammy
needs-triage
noble
dne
oracular
dne
plucky
dne