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Linux Linux — Bluetooth: hci_devcd_dump: fix out-of-bounds via dev_coredumpv
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U H N H 7.1 .0023 14.5 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux b257e02ecc46f8561d8bd88943164a10c9e90a80 – —
Linux 6.15 – 6.15.10
TIMELINE
Apr 16 Reserved by Linux
Aug 19 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-38592 (Linux). CVSS 8.8 → 7.1 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_devcd_dump: fix out-of-bounds via dev_coredumpv
Currently both dev_coredumpv and skb_put_data in hci_devcd_dump use
hdev->dump.head. However, dev_coredumpv can free the buffer. From
dev_coredumpm_timeout documentation, which is used by dev_coredumpv:
> Creates a new device coredump for the given device. If a previous one hasn't
> been read yet, the new coredump is discarded. The data lifetime is determined
> by the device coredump framework and when it is no longer needed the @free
> function will be called to free the data.
If the data has not been read by the userspace yet, dev_coredumpv will
discard new buffer, freeing hdev->dump.head. This leads to
vmalloc-out-of-bounds error when skb_put_data tries to access
hdev->dump.head.
A crash report from syzbot illustrates this:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in skb_put_data
include/linux/skbuff.h:2752 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in hci_devcd_dump+0x142/0x240
net/bluetooth/coredump.c:258
Read of size 140 at addr ffffc90004ed5000 by task kworker/u9:2/5844
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5844 Comm: kworker/u9:2 Not tainted
6.14.0-syzkaller-10892-g4e82c87058f4 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
Google 02/12/2025
Workqueue: hci0 hci_devcd_timeout
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]
print_report+0xc3/0x670 mm/kasan/report.c:521
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0xef/0x1a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
__asan_memcpy+0x23/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:105
skb_put_data include/linux/skbuff.h:2752 [inline]
hci_devcd_dump+0x142/0x240 net/bluetooth/coredump.c:258
hci_devcd_timeout+0xb5/0x2e0 net/bluetooth/coredump.c:413
process_one_work+0x9cc/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3238
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline]
worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
kthread+0x3c2/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:464
ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>
The buggy address ffffc90004ed5000 belongs to a vmalloc virtual mapping
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffffc90004ed4f00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
ffffc90004ed4f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
>ffffc90004ed5000: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
^
ffffc90004ed5080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
ffffc90004ed5100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
==================================================================
To avoid this issue, reorder dev_coredumpv to be called after
skb_put_data that does not free the data.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| April 16, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| August 19, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-38592 (Linux). CVSS 8.8 → 7.1 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | b257e02ecc46f8561d8bd88943164a10c9e90a80 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.15 | 6.15.10 |
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