CVE-2024-50148: Bluetooth: bnep: fix wild-memory-access in proto_unregister

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-11-07 · updated 2026-10-15

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: bnep: fix wild-memory-access in proto_unregister There's issue as follows: KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead...108-0xdead...10f] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 2805 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G W RIP: 0010:proto_unregister+0xee/0x400 Call Trace: <TASK> __do_sys_delete_module+0x318/0x580 do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x1d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f As bnep_init() ignore bnep_sock_init()'s return value, and bnep_sock_init() will cleanup all resource. Then when remove bnep module will call bnep_sock_cleanup() to cleanup sock's resource. To solve above issue just return bnep_sock_init()'s return value in bnep_exit().

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 2.6.12 before 4.19.323; from 4.20 before 5.4.285; from 5.5 before 5.10.229; from 5.11 before 5.15.170; from 5.16 before 6.1.115; from 6.2 before 6.6.59 — fixed in 4.19.323, 5.10.229, 5.15.170, 5.4.285, 6.1.115, 6.11.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.19.323, 5.10.229, 5.15.170, 5.4.285. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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