CVE-2026-64408 (GCVE-0-2026-64408)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-25 08:50 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:41
VLAI
Title
Bluetooth: bnep: pin L2CAP connection during netdev registration
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: bnep: pin L2CAP connection during netdev registration bnep_add_connection() reads the L2CAP connection without holding the channel lock, then passes its HCI device to register_netdev(). Controller teardown can clear and release that connection concurrently, leaving the network device registration path to dereference a freed parent device. Take a reference to the L2CAP connection while holding the channel lock. Retain it until register_netdev() has taken the parent device reference.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b , < 390b5db3ff8745187f094c4e915663b7b1f98944 (git)
Affected: 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b , < 46a88784c4c9b96954dd86f747ce93f65efa1302 (git)
Affected: 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b , < 551ae773ec64045b4e72099132654887e0270bcc (git)
Affected: 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b , < ae215c5b6422d8eda443b861b124bd1be6969c31 (git)
Affected: 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b , < df22adc7eafc22e651561813c11dc51a796b12ee (git)
Affected: 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b , < a6b22dbd80926556290ad2243be25218d6956a19 (git)
Affected: 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b , < 563a8573047182f550b1e1e030615755cd8c41da (git)
Affected: 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b , < bb067a99a0356196c0b89a95721985485ebce5a5 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.261 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.212 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.178 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.96 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.39 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.4 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2-rc3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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