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🛡️ CVE-2025-38473 — debian-linux

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-476 NVD
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Description

Bluetooth: Fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_resume_cb()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: Fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_resume_cb()

syzbot reported null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_resume_cb(). [0]

l2cap_sock_resume_cb() has a similar problem that was fixed by commit

1bff51ea59a9 ("Bluetooth: fix use-after-free error in lock_sock_nested()").

Since both l2cap_sock_kill() and l2cap_sock_resume_cb() are executed

under l2cap_sock_resume_cb(), we can avoid the issue simply by checking

if chan->data is NULL.

Let's not access to the killed socket in l2cap_sock_resume_cb().

[0]:

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in instrument_atomic_write include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in clear_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h:41 [inline]

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_resume_cb+0xb4/0x17c net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1711

Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000570 by task kworker/u9:0/52

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 52 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4-syzkaller-g7482bb149b9f #0 PREEMPT

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025

Workqueue: hci0 hci_rx_work

Call trace:

show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:501 (C)

__dump_stack+0x30/0x40 lib/dump_stack.c:94

dump_stack_lvl+0xd8/0x12c lib/dump_stack.c:120

print_report+0x58/0x84 mm/kasan/report.c:524

kasan_report+0xb0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634

check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]

kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2a4 mm/kasan/generic.c:189

__kasan_check_write+0x20/0x30 mm/kasan/shadow.c:37

instrument_atomic_write include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]

clear_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h:41 [inline]

l2cap_sock_resume_cb+0xb4/0x17c net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1711

l2cap_security_cfm+0x524/0xea0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7357

hci_auth_cfm include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:2092 [inline]

hci_auth_complete_evt+0x2e8/0xa4c net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:3514

hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7511 [inline]

hci_event_packet+0x650/0xe9c net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7565

hci_rx_work+0x320/0xb18 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4070

process_one_work+0x7e8/0x155c kernel/workqueue.c:3238

process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3321 [inline]

worker_thread+0x958/0xed8 kernel/workqueue.c:3402

kthread+0x5fc/0x75c kernel/kthread.c:464

ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:847

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-38473 is classified as CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference. A pointer that can be null is used without a check, crashing the process.

Affected software

CVE-2025-38473 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • debian-linux
  • kernel (from 6.13.0 up to 6.15.8)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 28 July 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
lists.debian.org
lists.debian.org

CVE-2025-38473 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-476
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-28
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
kernel 6.13.0 6.15.8
linux-kernel

References

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