Device crash via unchecked SDP filter growth
Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Sep 17, 2025
Out-of-bounds write in Zephyr RTOS 3.6 and earlier allows physically proximate attackers to crash devices through crafted Bluetooth SDP requests. The get_att_search_list function in subsys/bluetooth/host/sdp.c accepts more than ten attribute data elements and writes each parsed ID into a ten-entry stack filter without enforcing MAX_NUM_ATT_ID_FILTER. An attacker must reach a device's Bluetooth Classic SDP service; exploitation corrupts stack memory and can crash the host device.
Summary
What happened
Out-of-bounds write in Zephyr RTOS 3.6 and earlier allows physically proximate attackers to crash devices through crafted Bluetooth SDP requests. The get_att_search_list function in subsys/bluetooth/host/sdp.c accepts more than ten attribute data elements and writes each parsed ID into a ten-entry stack filter without enforcing MAX_NUM_ATT_ID_FILTER. An attacker must reach a device's Bluetooth Classic SDP service; exploitation corrupts stack memory and can crash the host device.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-6137
- Published
- Sep 13, 2024
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2025
- Vendor
- Zephyr Project
- Product
- Zephyr RTOS
- Classifications
- CWE-121, CWE-787, T1499
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 13, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=3.6
- Affected versionversion=* <=3.6
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Public exploit references
- Crafted SDP attribute-list proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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