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CVE-2026-23461

8.8 high SSVC exploitation: none Modified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_unregister_user After commit ab4eedb790ca ("Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix corrupted list in hci_chan_del"), l2cap_conn_del() uses conn->lock to protect access to conn->users. However, l2cap_register_user() and l2cap_unregister_user() don't use conn->lock, creating a race condition where these functions can access conn->users and conn->hchan concurrently with l2cap_conn_del(). This can lead to use-after-free and list corruption bugs, as reported by syzbot. Fix this by changing l2cap_register_user() and l2cap_unregister_user() to use conn->lock instead of hci_dev_lock(), ensuring consistent locking for the l2cap_conn structure.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 5

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Change history 3

  1. CwesCWE-416 → CWE-416, CWE-362NVD modified 2026-10-19 19:17
  2. StatusAnalyzed → ModifiedNVD modified 2026-10-19 19:17
  3. First seenCVSS 8.8 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-16 15:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 11

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 5