{"cve":"CVE-2025-38473","nvd":{"published":"2025-07-28T12:15:29.123","modified":"2026-06-17T09:16:55.953","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: Fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_resume_cb()\n\nsyzbot reported null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_resume_cb(). [0]\n\nl2cap_sock_resume_cb() has a similar problem that was fixed by commit\n1bff51ea59a9 (\"Bluetooth: fix use-after-free error in lock_sock_nested()\").\n\nSince both l2cap_sock_kill() and l2cap_sock_resume_cb() are executed\nunder l2cap_sock_resume_cb(), we can avoid the issue simply by checking\nif chan->data is NULL.\n\nLet's not access to the killed socket in l2cap_sock_resume_cb().\n\n[0]:\nBUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in instrument_atomic_write include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in clear_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h:41 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_resume_cb+0xb4/0x17c net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1711\nWrite of size 8 at addr 0000000000000570 by task kworker/u9:0/52\n\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 52 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4-syzkaller-g7482bb149b9f #0 PREEMPT\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025\nWorkqueue: hci0 hci_rx_work\nCall trace:\n show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:501 (C)\n __dump_stack+0x30/0x40 lib/dump_stack.c:94\n dump_stack_lvl+0xd8/0x12c lib/dump_stack.c:120\n print_report+0x58/0x84 mm/kasan/report.c:524\n kasan_report+0xb0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634\n check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]\n kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2a4 mm/kasan/generic.c:189\n __kasan_check_write+0x20/0x30 mm/kasan/shadow.c:37\n instrument_atomic_write include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]\n clear_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h:41 [inline]\n l2cap_sock_resume_cb+0xb4/0x17c net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1711\n l2cap_security_cfm+0x524/0xea0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7357\n hci_auth_cfm include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:2092 [inline]\n hci_auth_complete_evt+0x2e8/0xa4c net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:3514\n hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7511 [inline]\n hci_event_packet+0x650/0xe9c net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7565\n hci_rx_work+0x320/0xb18 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4070\n process_one_work+0x7e8/0x155c kernel/workqueue.c:3238\n process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3321 [inline]\n worker_thread+0x958/0xed8 kernel/workqueue.c:3402\n kthread+0x5fc/0x75c kernel/kthread.c:464\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:847","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-476"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/262cd18f5f7ede6a586580cadc5d0799e52e2e7c","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b27b389006623673e8cfff4ce1e119cce640b05","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a4eca2a1859955c65f07a570156bd2d9048ce33","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d63901dcd592a1e3f71d7c6d78f9be5e8d7eef0","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0075accbf0d76c2dad1ad3993d2e944505d99a0"],"products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:05:46.678065081+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-38473","score":0.00191,"percentile":0.08805,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}