On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 02:27:27PM +0300, Cengiz Can wrote:
> Hello Luiz Augusto,
>
>
> I'm by no means a bluetooth expert so please bear with me if my
> questions sound dumb or pointless.
>
>
> I'm trying to backport commit 711f8c3fb3db ("Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix
> accepting connection request for invalid SPSM") to v4.15.y and older
> stable kernels. (CVE-2022-42896)
>
>
> According to the changes to `net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c` there are two
> functions that need patching:
>
>
> * l2cap_le_connect_req
> * l2cap_ecred_conn_req
>
>
>
> Only the former exists in kernels <= v4.15.y. So I decided to skip
>
> l2cap_ecred_conn_req for older kernels.
>
>
> Do you think this would be enough to mitigate the issue?
>
>
>
> If so, older kernels also lack definitions of L2CAP_CR_LE_BAD_PSM and
>
> L2CAP_PSM_LE_DYN_END.
>
>
> I see that L2CAP_CR_LE_BAD_PSM is basically the same as
> L2CAP_CR_BAD_PSM so I used it to signify an error.
>
>
> I think it should be enough for the sake of a backport.
>
>
> What do you think?
I've already done this backport and it is in the latest -rc1 stable
kernel releases. Is it not working for you there? Why do it again?
thanks,
greg k-h
