CVE-2026-64557

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb()

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Jul 29, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8ffb929098a56939ac71509302eeab5b207bf262 to before b39298044e5534612511a2ff5de03ba5f6e7a820Affected
  • 8ffb929098a56939ac71509302eeab5b207bf262 to before 8c37e4338c801ebb8cee52436c01c41e009f6e87Affected
  • 8ffb929098a56939ac71509302eeab5b207bf262 to before 84e718b6a814edc84159361f9f454a4e92ae91aeAffected
  • 8ffb929098a56939ac71509302eeab5b207bf262 to before 36da806f7fbaee56ad9e81859deec203f9728700Affected
  • 8ffb929098a56939ac71509302eeab5b207bf262 to before 733e76e74e406c1d1ddc7369420dd8a47f48bb8aAffected
  • 8ffb929098a56939ac71509302eeab5b207bf262 to before 6fef032af0092ed5ccb767239a9ac1bc38c08a40Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.13Affected
  • before 3.13Not affected
  • 6.1.178 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.97 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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