CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-63944
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix UAF in hci_le_create_cis_sync
hci_le_create_cis_sync() dereferences conn->conn_timeout after releasing
both rcu_read_lock() and hci_dev_lock(hdev). The conn pointer was
obtained from an RCU-protected iteration over hdev->conn_hash.list and
is not valid once these locks are dropped. A concurrent disconnect can
free the hci_conn between the unlock and the dereference, causing a
use-after-free read.
The cancellation mechanism in hci_conn_del() cannot prevent this because
hci_le_create_cis_pending() queues hci_create_cis_sync with data=NULL:
hci_cmd_sync_queue(hdev, hci_create_cis_sync, NULL, NULL);
While hci_conn_del() dequeues with data=conn:
hci_cmd_sync_dequeue(hdev, NULL, conn, NULL);
Since NULL != conn, the lookup in _hci_cmd_sync_lookup_entry() never
matches, and the pending work item is not cancelled.
Fix this by saving conn->conn_timeout into a local variable while the
locks are still held, so the stale conn pointer is never dereferenced
after unlock.
This is the same class of bug as the one fixed by commit 035c25007c9e
("Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix UAF on le_read_features_complete") which
addressed the identical pattern in a different function.
This vulnerability was identified using 0sec.ai, an open-source
automated security auditing platform (https://github.com/0sec-labs).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.4 < 6.6.143)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.93)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.35)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.12)
• linux linux kernel 7.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/380e67b1794a9a281a0cb592b4e62077fbd0c8ca Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a55618c0f4cead9e59c63f5ee030d393fd70d861 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a921957d39290143629eb38c4f74b9bef8035d0a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfea6091e0fffb270c20e74384b660910277eb6c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9019210c8c30d40eb20094274cc647e352f48f7 Patch