In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: handle NULL sock pointer in l2cap_sock_alloc A NULL sock pointer is passed into l2cap_sock_alloc() when it is called from l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb() and the error handling paths should also be aware of it. Seemingly a more elegant solution would be to swap bt_sock_alloc() and l2cap_chan_create() calls since they are not interdependent to that moment but then l2cap_chan_create() adds the soon to be deallocated and still dummy-initialized channel to the global list accessible by many L2CAP paths. The channel would be removed from the list in short period of time but be a bit more straight-forward here and just check for NULL instead of changing the order of function calls. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE static analysis tool.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/245d48c1ba3e7a1779c2f4cbc6f581ddc8a78e22 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/297ce7f544aa675b0d136d788cad0710cdfb0785 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49c0d55d59662430f1829ae85b969619573d0fa1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f397409f8ee5bc82901eeaf799e1cbc4f8edcf1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/691218a50c3139f7f57ffa79fb89d932eda9571e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e605f580a97530e5a3583beea458a3fa4cbefbd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9a7672fc1a0fe18502493936ccb06413ab89ea6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf601a24120c674cd7c907ea695f92617af6abd0 Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.5 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-15 02:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 11
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/245d48c1ba3e7a1779c2f4cbc6f581ddc8a78e22 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/297ce7f544aa675b0d136d788cad0710cdfb0785 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49c0d55d59662430f1829ae85b969619573d0fa1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f397409f8ee5bc82901eeaf799e1cbc4f8edcf1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/691218a50c3139f7f57ffa79fb89d932eda9571e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e605f580a97530e5a3583beea458a3fa4cbefbd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9a7672fc1a0fe18502493936ccb06413ab89ea6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf601a24120c674cd7c907ea695f92617af6abd0 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html