Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_uart: Fix...
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_uart: Fix another race during initialization
Do not set 'HCI_UART_PROTO_READY' before call 'hci_uart_register_dev()'.
Possible race is when someone calls 'hci_tty_uart_close()' after this bit
is set, but 'hci_uart_register_dev()' wasn't done. This leads to access
to uninitialized fields. To fix it let's set this bit after device was
registered (as before patch c411c62cc133) and to fix previous problem let's
add one more bit in addition to 'HCI_UART_PROTO_READY' which allows to
perform power up without original bit set (pls see commit c411c62cc133).
Crash backtrace from syzbot report:
RIP: 0010:skb_queue_empty_lockless include/linux/skbuff.h:1887 [inline]
RIP: 0010:skb_queue_purge_reason+0x6d/0x140 net/core/skbuff.c:3936
Call Trace:
skb_queue_purge include/linux/skbuff.h:3364 [inline]
mrvl_close+0x2f/0x90 drivers/bluetooth/hci_mrvl.c:100
hci_uart_tty_close+0xb6/0x120 drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c:557
tty_ldisc_close drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:455 [inline]
tty_ldisc_kill+0x66/0xc0 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:613
tty_ldisc_release+0xc9/0x120 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:781
tty_release_struct+0x10/0x80 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1690
tty_release+0x4ef/0x640 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1861
__fput+0x86/0x2a0 fs/file_table.c:450
task_work_run+0x82/0xb0 kernel/task_work.c:239
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:114 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:329 [inline]
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:207 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xa3/0x1b0 kernel/entry/common.c:218
do_syscall_64+0x9a/0x190 arch/x86/entry/common.c:89
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
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- What is CVE-2025-23139? CVE-2025-23139 is a unknown-severity security vulnerability. No fixed version is listed yet.
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