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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-50255

medium Nessus Plugin ID 230996

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci: fix null-ptr-deref in hci_read_supported_codecs Fix __hci_cmd_sync_sk() to return not NULL for unknown opcodes.
 __hci_cmd_sync_sk() returns NULL if a command returns a status event. However, it also returns NULL where an opcode doesn't exist in the hci_cc table because hci_cmd_complete_evt() assumes status = skb->data[0] for unknown opcodes. This leads to null-ptr-deref in cmd_sync for HCI_OP_READ_LOCAL_CODECS as there is no hci_cc for HCI_OP_READ_LOCAL_CODECS, which always assumes status = skb->data[0]. KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000070-0x0000000000000077] CPU: 1 PID: 2000 Comm: kworker/u9:5 Not tainted 6.9.0-ga6bcb805883c-dirty #10 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 Workqueue: hci7 hci_power_on RIP: 0010:hci_read_supported_codecs+0xb9/0x870 net/bluetooth/hci_codec.c:138 Code: 08 48 89 ef e8 b8 c1 8f fd 48 8b 75 00 e9 96 00 00 00 49 89 c6 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 8d 60 70 4c 89 e3 48 c1 eb 03 <0f> b6 04 13 84 c0 0f 85 82 06 00 00 41 83 3c 24 02 77 0a e8 bf 78 RSP: 0018:ffff888120bafac8 EFLAGS: 00010212 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000e RCX: ffff8881173f0040 RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffffa58496c0 RDI: ffff88810b9ad1e4 RBP:
 ffff88810b9ac000 R08: ffffffffa77882a7 R09: 1ffffffff4ef1054 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff4ef1055 R12: 0000000000000070 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88810b9ac000 FS:
 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f6c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:
 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f6ddaa3439e CR3: 0000000139764003 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: <TASK> hci_read_local_codecs_sync net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:4546 [inline] hci_init_stage_sync net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:3441 [inline] hci_init4_sync net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:4706 [inline] hci_init_sync net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:4742 [inline] hci_dev_init_sync net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:4912 [inline] hci_dev_open_sync+0x19a9/0x2d30 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:4994 hci_dev_do_open net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:483 [inline] hci_power_on+0x11e/0x560 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:1015 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3267 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0x8ef/0x14f0 kernel/workqueue.c:3348 worker_thread+0x91f/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3429 kthread+0x2cb/0x360 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x4d/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244 (CVE-2024-50255)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 230996

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2024_50255.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/6/2025

Updated: 3/6/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-50255

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-50255