CVE-2026-90254

Bluetooth: hci_sync: free the advertising instance on the failure and cancel paths

N/A
Published: September 17, 2026 at 04:07 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:19 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.1c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c
Vendor states this is fixed in 120d8dc042e3d45073bb6e50ee7b058a0b182627 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 193182c6467f508a8a61d5db506d796ffed6eee6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2e3d827cd56865c14f6ca118bbccd7801091fb21 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9c3b6c1413bd0b4993642d987616331f84d9b7f5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bb5ca1cc7744c41c59002bd6523714a685ae6595 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c2019224a766245b7db39d87fdfe84c3fdc879d9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.188 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.110 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.52 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.157 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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