Deadlock Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

Bluetooth: af_bluetooth: Fix deadlock

Attemting to do sock_lock on .recvmsg may cause a deadlock as shown bellow, so instead of using sock_sock this uses sk_receive_queue.lock on bt_sock_ioctl to avoid the UAF:

INFO: task kworker/u9:1:121 blocked for more than 30 seconds. Not tainted 6.7.6-lemon #183 Workqueue: hci0 hci_rx_work Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x37d/0xa00 schedule+0x32/0xe0 __lock_sock+0x68/0xa0 ? __pfx_autoremove_wake_function+0x10/0x10 lock_sock_nested+0x43/0x50 l2cap_sock_recv_cb+0x21/0xa0 l2cap_recv_frame+0x55b/0x30a0 ? psi_task_switch+0xeb/0x270 ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x93/0x2a0 hci_rx_work+0x33a/0x3f0 process_one_work+0x13a/0x2f0 worker_thread+0x2f0/0x410 ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 kthread+0xe0/0x110 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 </TASK>

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-26886
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0625d7c240b307b78640dcd823cb738cb900a8ba
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c9e2df022ef8b9d7fac58a04a2ef4ed25288955
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64be3c6154886200708da0dfe259705fb992416c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/817e8138ce86001b2fa5c63d6ede756e205a01f7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb8adca52f306563d958a863bb0cbae9c184d1ae
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7b94bdc1ec107c92262716b073b3e816d4784fb