HIGH 8.8 NVD
CVE-2026-64557
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb() l2cap_sock_new_conn
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb()
l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb() returned l2cap_pi(sk)->chan after
release_sock(parent). Once the parent lock is dropped the newly
enqueued child socket sk is reachable via the accept queue, so another
task can accept and free it before the callback dereferences sk,
resulting in a use-after-free.
Rework the ->new_connection() op so the core, rather than the callback,
owns the child channel's lifetime. The op now receives a pre-allocated
new_chan and returns an errno instead of allocating and returning a
channel. l2cap_new_connection() allocates the child channel and links
it into the conn list via __l2cap_chan_add() before invoking the
callback, so the conn-list reference keeps the channel alive once
release_sock(parent) exposes the socket to other tasks.
Channel configuration that was duplicated in l2cap_sock_init() and the
various new_connection callbacks is consolidated into
l2cap_chan_set_defaults(), which now inherits from the parent channel
when one is supplied.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36da806f7fbaee56ad9e81859deec203f9728700
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fef032af0092ed5ccb767239a9ac1bc38c08a40
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/733e76e74e406c1d1ddc7369420dd8a47f48bb8a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84e718b6a814edc84159361f9f454a4e92ae91ae
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c37e4338c801ebb8cee52436c01c41e009f6e87
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8 was published on 2026-07-29 via NVD.
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