CVE-2024-36013: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix slab-use-after-free in l2cap_connect()
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 35/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.47% (FIRST EPSS).
- Someone on the same network segment can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- Fixed version: Linux Linux 4d7b41c0e43995b0e992b9f8903109275744b658, 826af9d2f69567c646ff46d10393d47e30ad23c6, 8629a65a48890769c47ebc9b6e57c02a80a8975e.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 4d7b41c0e43995b0e992b9f8903109275744b658, 826af9d2f69567c646ff46d10393d47e30ad23c6, 8629a65a48890769c47ebc9b6e57c02a80a8975e or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix slab-use-after-free in l2cap_connect() Extend a critical section to prevent chan from early freeing. Also make the l2cap_connect() return type void. Nothing is using the returned value but it is ugly to return a potentially freed pointer. Making it void will help with backports because earlier kernels did use the return value. Now the compile will break for kernels where this patch is not a complete fix. Call stack summary: [use] l2cap_bredr_sig_cmd l2cap_connect ┌ mutex_lock(&conn->chan_lock); │ chan = pchan->ops->new_connection(pchan); <- alloc chan │ __l2cap_chan_add(conn, chan); │ l2cap_chan_hold(chan); │ list_add(&chan->list, &conn->chan_l); ... (1) └ mutex_unlock(&conn->chan_lock); chan->conf_state ... (4) <- use after free [free] l2cap_conn_del ┌ mutex_lock(&conn->chan_lock); │ foreach chan in conn->chan_l: ... (2) │ l2cap_chan_put(chan); │ l2cap_chan_destroy │ kfree(chan) ... (3) <- chan freed └ mutex_unlock(&conn->chan_lock); ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:68 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in l2cap_connect+0xa67/0x11a0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:4260 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810bf040a0 by task kworker/u3:1/311
- Published
- May 23, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 41th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-416
Report tools
Action score
35
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · Linux
- 8.8
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux kernel | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- linux linux kernel3.0 and later · before 6.6.32
- linux linux kernel6.7 and later · before 6.8.11
- linux linux kernel6.9
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Linux Linux
- 3.0affected
- 73ffa904b78287f6acf8797e040150aa26a4af4a and later · before 8629a65a48890769c47ebc9b6e57c02a80a8975eaffected · git
- 73ffa904b78287f6acf8797e040150aa26a4af4a and later · before cfe560c7050bfb37b0d2491bbe7cd8b59e77fdc5affected · git
- 73ffa904b78287f6acf8797e040150aa26a4af4a and later · before 826af9d2f69567c646ff46d10393d47e30ad23c6affected · git
- 73ffa904b78287f6acf8797e040150aa26a4af4a and later · before 4d7b41c0e43995b0e992b9f8903109275744b658affected · git
- before 3.0not affected · semver
- 6.1.178 and later · up to and including 6.1.*not affected · semver
- 6.6.32 and later · up to and including 6.6.*not affected · semver
- 6.8.11 and later · up to and including 6.8.*not affected · semver
- 6.9 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | linux | before 6.1.180-1 | 6.1.180-1 |
| Debian:13 | linux | before 6.8.11-1 | 6.8.11-1 |
Same product
linux: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
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- CVE-2022-0847A flaw was found in the way the "flags" member of the new pipe buffer structure was lacking proper initialization in copy_page_to_iter_pipe KEV89Now
- CVE-2021-22555Heap Out-Of-Bounds Write in Netfilter IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACEKEV85Now
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2024-36011May 23, 2024 · Bluetooth: HCI: Fix potential null-ptr-deref22Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2024-36012May 23, 2024 · Bluetooth: msft: fix slab-use-after-free in msft_do_close()31Monitor
- Later →CVE-2021-47499May 24, 2024 · iio: accel: kxcjk-1013: Fix possible memory leak in probe and remove22Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | 4d7b41c0e43995b0e992b9f8903109275744b658 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 826af9d2f69567c646ff46d10393d47e30ad23c6 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 8629a65a48890769c47ebc9b6e57c02a80a8975e | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | cfe560c7050bfb37b0d2491bbe7cd8b59e77fdc5 | Vendor (CNA) |
| debian:linux | 6.1.180-1 · Debian:12 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-24-0545 · May 24, 2024(Linux Kernel Güncellemesi)
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Someone on the same network segment can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Adjacent
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-416 · Use After FreeCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
Root cause
After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-416 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
free(dev->buf);
/* ... another thread is still running ... */
process(dev->buf);Fixed
lock(&dev->lock);
free(dev->buf);
dev->buf = NULL;
unlock(&dev->lock);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d7b41c0e43995b0e992b9f8903109275744b658
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/826af9d2f69567c646ff46d10393d47e30ad23c6
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8629a65a48890769c47ebc9b6e57c02a80a8975e
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfe560c7050bfb37b0d2491bbe7cd8b59e77fdc5
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/2
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.