CVE-2026-90254: vulnerability in Linux
Bluetooth: hci_sync: free the advertising instance on the failure and cancel paths
Published
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 89% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_sync: free the advertising instance on the failure and cancel paths
adv_timeout_expire() hands a kmalloc()ed instance byte to
hci_cmd_sync_queue() with a NULL destroy callback, and only
adv_timeout_expire_sync() frees it. That leaks on two paths:
- the return value is not checked, and hci_cmd_sync_queue() does not
take ownership when it fails (-ENETDOWN, -ENODEV, -ENOMEM);
- a cancelled entry is not released, as _hci_cmd_sync_cancel_entry()
does not free entry->data when there is no destroy callback.
hci_cmd_sync_clear() cancels every pending entry when the controller
is unregistered.
Free the buffer from a destroy callback, and in the caller when the entry
could not be queued at all.
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/120d8dc042e3d45073bb6e50ee7b058a0b182627https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/193182c6467f508a8a61d5db506d796ffed6eee6https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e3d827cd56865c14f6ca118bbccd7801091fb21https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c3b6c1413bd0b4993642d987616331f84d9b7f5https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb5ca1cc7744c41c59002bd6523714a685ae6595https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2019224a766245b7db39d87fdfe84c3fdc879d9