CVE-2025-39889: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
Bluetooth: l2cap: Check encryption key size on incoming connection
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.1epss 0.1%
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: l2cap: Check encryption key size on incoming connection
This is required for passing GAP/SEC/SEM/BI-04-C PTS test case:
Security Mode 4 Level 4, Responder - Invalid Encryption Key Size
- 128 bit
This tests the security key with size from 1 to 15 bytes while the
Security Mode 4 Level 4 requests 16 bytes key size.
Currently PTS fails with the following logs:
- expected:Connection Response:
Code: [3 (0x03)] Code
Identifier: (lt)WildCard: Exists(gt)
Length: [8 (0x0008)]
Destination CID: (lt)WildCard: Exists(gt)
Source CID: [64 (0x0040)]
Result: [3 (0x0003)] Connection refused - Security block
Status: (lt)WildCard: Exists(gt),
but received:Connection Response:
Code: [3 (0x03)] Code
Identifier: [1 (0x01)]
Length: [8 (0x0008)]
Destination CID: [64 (0x0040)]
Source CID: [64 (0x0040)]
Result: [0 (0x0000)] Connection Successful
Status: [0 (0x0000)] No further information available
And HCI logs:
< HCI Command: Read Encrypti.. (0x05|0x0008) plen 2
Handle: 14 Address: 00:1B:DC:F2:24:10 (Vencer Co., Ltd.)
> HCI Event: Command Complete (0x0e) plen 7
Read Encryption Key Size (0x05|0x0008) ncmd 1
Status: Success (0x00)
Handle: 14 Address: 00:1B:DC:F2:24:10 (Vencer Co., Ltd.)
Key size: 7
> ACL Data RX: Handle 14 flags 0x02 dlen 12
L2CAP: Connection Request (0x02) ident 1 len 4
PSM: 4097 (0x1001)
Source CID: 64
< ACL Data TX: Handle 14 flags 0x00 dlen 16
L2CAP: Connection Response (0x03) ident 1 len 8
Destination CID: 64
Source CID: 64
Result: Connection successful (0x0000)
Status: No further information available (0x0000)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24b2cdfc16e9bd6ab3d03b8e01c590755bd3141fhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/522e9ed157e3c21b4dd623c79967f72c21e45b78https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e3114958d87ea88383cbbf38c89e04b8ea1bce5https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6d527bbd3d3896375079f5dbc8b7f96734a3ba5https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d49798ecd26e0ee7995a7fc1e90ca5cd9b4402d6https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4ca2fd218caafbf50e3343ba1260c6a23b5676ahttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed503d340a501e414114ddc614a3aae4f6e9eae2