{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-39981 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-39981 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-39981 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-39981 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-39981 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39981/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39981/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-39981","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39981/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-39981","record":{"aliases":["AZL-68501","BELL-CVE-2025-39981","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39981","GHSA-rvm4-4vv7-vq58","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-39981","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-39981","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-39981","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39981"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel Bluetooth","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel Bluetooth management subsystem allows attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: MGMT: Fix possible UAFs\n\nThis attemps to fix possible UAFs caused by struct mgmt_pending being\nfreed while still being processed like in the following trace, in order\nto fix mgmt_pending_valid is introduce and use to check if the\nmgmt_pending hasn't been removed from the pending list, on the complete\ncallbacks it is used to check and in addtion remove the cmd from the list\nwhile holding mgmt_pending_lock to avoid TOCTOU problems since if the cmd\nis left on the list it can still be accessed and freed.\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mgmt_add_adv_patterns_monitor_sync+0x35/0x50 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5223\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff8880709d4dc0 by task kworker/u11:0/55\n\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 55 Comm: kworker/u11:0 Not tainted 6.16.4 #2 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014\nWorkqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]\n print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482\n kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595\n mgmt_add_adv_patterns_monitor_sync+0x35/0x50 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5223\n hci_cmd_sync_work+0x210/0x3a0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:332\n process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3238 [inline]\n process_scheduled_works+0xade/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3321\n worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3402\n kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:464\n ret_from_fork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 home/kwqcheii/source/fuzzing/kernel/kasan/linux-6.16.4/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nAllocated by task 12210:\n kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]\n kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68\n poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]\n __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394\n kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x230/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:4364\n kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]\n kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]\n mgmt_pending_new+0x65/0x1e0 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:269\n mgmt_pending_add+0x35/0x140 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:296\n __add_adv_patterns_monitor+0x130/0x200 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5247\n add_adv_patterns_monitor+0x214/0x360 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:5364\n hci_mgmt_cmd+0x9c9/0xef0 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1719\n hci_sock_sendmsg+0x6ca/0xef0 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1839\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg+0x219/0x270 net/socket.c:729\n sock_write_iter+0x258/0x330 net/socket.c:1133\n new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]\n vfs_write+0x5c9/0xb30 fs/read_write.c:686\n ksys_write+0x145/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nFreed by task 12221:\n kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]\n kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68\n kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:576\n poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]\n __kasan_slab_free+0x62/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264\n kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]\n slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2381 [inline]\n slab_free mm/slub.c:4648 [inline]\n kfree+0x18e/0x440 mm/slub.c:4847\n mgmt_pending_free net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:311 [inline]\n mgmt_pending_foreach+0x30d/0x380 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:257\n __mgmt_power_off+0x169/0x350 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:9444\n hci_dev_close_sync+0x754/0x1330 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5290\n hci_dev_do_close net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:501 [inline]\n hci_dev_close+0x108/0x200 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:526\n sock_do_ioctl+0xd9/0x300 net/socket.c:1192\n sock_ioctl+0x576/0x790 net/socket.c:1313\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xf\n---truncated---","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix possible UAFs","id":"CVE-2025-39981","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix UAF in hci_acl_create_conn_sync","id":"CVE-2025-39982"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"nexthop: Forbid FDB status change while nexthop is in a group","id":"CVE-2025-39980"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-10-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel Bluetooth management subsystem allows attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39981/"}