CVE-2026-90254

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

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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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.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c to before c2019224a766245b7db39d87fdfe84c3fdc879d9Affected
  • c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c to before 193182c6467f508a8a61d5db506d796ffed6eee6Affected
  • c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c to before 2e3d827cd56865c14f6ca118bbccd7801091fb21Affected
  • c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c to before 9c3b6c1413bd0b4993642d987616331f84d9b7f5Affected
  • c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c to before bb5ca1cc7744c41c59002bd6523714a685ae6595Affected
  • c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c to before 120d8dc042e3d45073bb6e50ee7b058a0b182627Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.1Affected
  • before 6.1Not affected
  • 6.1.188 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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