# CVE-2024-58009: Bluetooth: L2CAP: handle NULL sock pointer in l2cap_sock_alloc

> A NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel Bluetooth L2CAP subsystem allows attackers to cause a system crash.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 27 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-58009, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-58009, GHSA-mqqf-qf5c-jg26, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-58009, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-58009

## What is CVE-2024-58009?

CVE-2024-58009 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Feb 2025. 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: L2CAP: handle NULL sock pointer in l2cap_sock_alloc

A NULL sock pointer is passed into l2cap_sock_alloc() when it is called
from l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb() and the error handling paths should
also be aware of it.

Seemingly a more elegant solution would be to swap bt_sock_alloc() and
l2cap_chan_create() calls since they are not interdependent to that moment
but then l2cap_chan_create() adds the soon to be deallocated and still
dummy-initialized channel to the global list accessible by many L2CAP
paths. The channel would be removed from the list in short period of time
but be a bit more straight-forward here and just check for NULL instead of
changing the order of function calls.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE static
analysis tool.

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-58009?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-58009?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-58009 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-58009 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-58009 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-58009 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-58009 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-58009/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-58009/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-58009
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-58009
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-58009

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