CVE-2024-50044: Linux Kernel

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.27, before 5.10.227 (fixed in 5.10.227); from 5.11, before 5.15.168 (fixed in 5.15.168); from 5.16, before 6.1.113 (fixed in 6.1.113); from 6.2, before 6.6.57 (fixed in 6.6.57); from 6.7, before 6.11.4 (fixed in 6.11.4); version 6.12 only

Published 2024-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.