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Bluetooth: af_bluetooth: Fix Use-After-Free in bt_sock_recvmsg
jira VULN-470
cve CVE-2023-51779
commit-author Hyunwoo Kim <v4bel@theori.io>
commit 2e07e83

This can cause a race with bt_sock_ioctl() because
bt_sock_recvmsg() gets the skb from sk->sk_receive_queue
and then frees it without holding lock_sock.
A use-after-free for a skb occurs with the following flow.
```
bt_sock_recvmsg() -> skb_recv_datagram() -> skb_free_datagram()
bt_sock_ioctl() -> skb_peek()
```
Add lock_sock to bt_sock_recvmsg() to fix this issue.

	Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1da177e ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
	Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <v4bel@theori.io>
	Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2e07e83)
	Signed-off-by: Brett Mastbergen <bmastbergen@ciq.com>
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bmastbergen committed Sep 9, 2025
commit 320f150d4006e0064ddc79964c1aaa073fb2bc5f
7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -264,11 +264,14 @@ int bt_sock_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len,
if (flags & MSG_OOB)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

lock_sock(sk);

skb = skb_recv_datagram(sk, flags, &err);
if (!skb) {
if (sk->sk_shutdown & RCV_SHUTDOWN)
return 0;
err = 0;

release_sock(sk);
return err;
}

Expand All @@ -294,6 +297,8 @@ int bt_sock_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len,

skb_free_datagram(sk, skb);

release_sock(sk);

if (flags & MSG_TRUNC)
copied = skblen;

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