Improper Locking Affecting kernel-coco_debug package, versions <6.4.0-15061.9.coco15sp6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELCOCODEBUG-8543595
  • published20 Dec 2024
  • disclosed19 Dec 2024

Introduced: 19 Dec 2024

NewCVE-2024-50044  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-667  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-coco_debug to version 6.4.0-15061.9.coco15sp6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-coco_debug package and not the kernel-coco_debug package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: FIX possible deadlock in rfcomm_sk_state_change

rfcomm_sk_state_change attempts to use sock_lock so it must never be called with it locked but rfcomm_sock_ioctl always attempt to lock it causing the following trace:

====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 6.8.0-syzkaller-08951-gfe46a7dd189e #0 Not tainted

syz-executor386/5093 is trying to acquire lock: ffff88807c396258 (sk_lock-AF_BLUETOOTH-BTPROTO_RFCOMM){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1671 [inline] ffff88807c396258 (sk_lock-AF_BLUETOOTH-BTPROTO_RFCOMM){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: rfcomm_sk_state_change+0x5b/0x310 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c:73

but task is already holding lock: ffff88807badfd28 (&d->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __rfcomm_dlc_close+0x226/0x6a0 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c:491

CVSS Scores

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