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CVE-2025-38592: Bluetooth: hci_devcd_dump: fix out-of-bounds via dev_coredumpv

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 28/100)

  • 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: 0.23% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 7af4d7b53502286c6cf946d397ab183e76d14820, 8c021ad797f9171d015cf0a932a3fbe5232190f5, efd55f6a59449f8d4e4953f12c177aa902b7451f.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 7af4d7b53502286c6cf946d397ab183e76d14820, 8c021ad797f9171d015cf0a932a3fbe5232190f5, efd55f6a59449f8d4e4953f12c177aa902b7451f 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: hci_devcd_dump: fix out-of-bounds via dev_coredumpv Currently both dev_coredumpv and skb_put_data in hci_devcd_dump use hdev->dump.head. However, dev_coredumpv can free the buffer. From dev_coredumpm_timeout documentation, which is used by dev_coredumpv: > Creates a new device coredump for the given device. If a previous one hasn't > been read yet, the new coredump is discarded. The data lifetime is determined > by the device coredump framework and when it is no longer needed the @free > function will be called to free the data. If the data has not been read by the userspace yet, dev_coredumpv will discard new buffer, freeing hdev->dump.head. This leads to vmalloc-out-of-bounds error when skb_put_data tries to access hdev->dump.head. A crash report from syzbot illustrates this: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in skb_put_data include/linux/skbuff.h:2752 [inline] BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in hci_devcd_dump+0x142/0x240 net/bluetooth/coredump.c:258 Read of size 140 at addr ffffc90004ed5000 by task kworker/u9:2/5844 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5844 Comm: kworker/u9:2 Not tainted 6.14.0-syzkaller-10892-g4e82c87058f4 #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025 Workqueue: hci0 hci_devcd_timeout Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline] print_report+0xc3/0x670 mm/kasan/report.c:521 kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline] kasan_check_range+0xef/0x1a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 __asan_memcpy+0x23/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:105 skb_put_data include/linux/skbuff.h:2752 [inline] hci_devcd_dump+0x142/0x240 net/bluetooth/coredump.c:258 hci_devcd_timeout+0xb5/0x2e0 net/bluetooth/coredump.c:413 process_one_work+0x9cc/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3238 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline] worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3400 kthread+0x3c2/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:464 ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 </TASK> The buggy address ffffc90004ed5000 belongs to a vmalloc virtual mapping Memory state around the buggy address: ffffc90004ed4f00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc90004ed4f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 >ffffc90004ed5000: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ^ ffffc90004ed5080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ffffc90004ed5100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ================================================================== To avoid this issue, reorder dev_coredumpv to be called after skb_put_data that does not free the data.

HighCVSS 7.1 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Aug 19, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 14th percentile

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Action score

28

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
28 / 40 · 7.1 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
7.1
CNA · Linux
8.8
1.7 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Affected versions

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  • linux linux kernel6.15 and later · before 6.15.10
  • linux linux kernel6.16 and later · before 6.16.1

Versions reported by the vendor

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  • Linux Linux

    • 6.15affected
    • b257e02ecc46f8561d8bd88943164a10c9e90a80 and later · before efd55f6a59449f8d4e4953f12c177aa902b7451faffected · git
    • b257e02ecc46f8561d8bd88943164a10c9e90a80 and later · before 8c021ad797f9171d015cf0a932a3fbe5232190f5affected · git
    • b257e02ecc46f8561d8bd88943164a10c9e90a80 and later · before 7af4d7b53502286c6cf946d397ab183e76d14820affected · git
    • before 6.15not affected · semver
    • 6.15.10 and later · up to and including 6.15.*not affected · semver
    • 6.16.1 and later · up to and including 6.16.*not affected · semver
    • 6.17 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2025-38585Aug 19, 2025 · staging: media: atomisp: Fix stack buffer overflow in gmin_get_var_int()
    31Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2025-38589Aug 19, 2025 · neighbour: Fix null-ptr-deref in neigh_flush_dev().
    22Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2025-38594Aug 19, 2025 · iommu/vt-d: Fix UAF on sva unbind with pending IOPFs
    31Monitor

Remediation

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux7af4d7b53502286c6cf946d397ab183e76d14820Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux8c021ad797f9171d015cf0a932a3fbe5232190f5Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxefd55f6a59449f8d4e4953f12c177aa902b7451fVendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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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.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

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