CVE-2026-63944

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix UAF in hci_le_create_cis_sync

hci_le_create_cis_sync() dereferences conn->conn_timeout after releasing both rcu_read_lock() and hci_dev_lock(hdev). The conn pointer was obtained from an RCU-protected iteration over hdev->conn_hash.list and is not valid once these locks are dropped. A concurrent disconnect can free the hci_conn between the unlock and the dereference, causing a use-after-free read.

The cancellation mechanism in hci_conn_del() cannot prevent this because hci_le_create_cis_pending() queues hci_create_cis_sync with data=NULL:

hci_cmd_sync_queue(hdev, hci_create_cis_sync, NULL, NULL);

While hci_conn_del() dequeues with data=conn:

hci_cmd_sync_dequeue(hdev, NULL, conn, NULL);

Since NULL != conn, the lookup in _hci_cmd_sync_lookup_entry() never matches, and the pending work item is not cancelled.

Fix this by saving conn->conn_timeout into a local variable while the locks are still held, so the stale conn pointer is never dereferenced after unlock.

This is the same class of bug as the one fixed by commit 035c25007c9e (Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix UAF on le_read_features_complete) which addressed the identical pattern in a different function.

This vulnerability was identified using 0sec.ai, an open-source automated security auditing platform (https://github.com/0sec-labs).

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/380e67b1794a9a281a0cb592b4e62077fbd0c8ca
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a55618c0f4cead9e59c63f5ee030d393fd70d861
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a921957d39290143629eb38c4f74b9bef8035d0a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfea6091e0fffb270c20e74384b660910277eb6c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9019210c8c30d40eb20094274cc647e352f48f7