CVE-2024-50125 Bluetooth: SCO: Fix UAF on sco_sock_timeout

What is CVE-2024-50125?

CVE-2024-50125 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 5 Nov 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

Bluetooth: SCO: Fix UAF on sco_sock_timeout

conn->sk maybe have been unlinked/freed while waiting for sco_conn_lock so this checks if the conn->sk is still valid by checking if it part of sco_sk_list.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50125?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-50125?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2024-50125 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50125 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-52461, AZL-52497, BELL-CVE-2024-50125, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50125, GHSA-cp44-cqrx-8mr2, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-50125 and 2 more.