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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38473"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-28T11:21:34.880Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:28:41.562Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38473"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38473.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38473"
title: "Bluetooth: Fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_resume_cb()"
summary: "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-\u003edata 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"
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