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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published May 23, 2024· Updated Aug 4, 2026

CVE-2024-36012

CVE-2024-36012

Description

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

Bluetooth: msft: fix slab-use-after-free in msft_do_close()

Tying the msft->data lifetime to hdev by freeing it in hci_release_dev() to fix the following case:

[use] msft_do_close() msft = hdev->msft_data; if (!msft) ...(1) <- passed. return; mutex_lock(&msft->filter_lock); ...(4) <- used after freed.

[free] msft_unregister() msft = hdev->msft_data; hdev->msft_data = NULL; ...(2) kfree(msft); ...(3) <- msft is freed.

================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:587 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __mutex_lock+0x8f/0xc30 kernel/locking/mutex.c:752 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888106cbbca8 by task kworker/u5:2/309

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