CVE-2026-98455

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

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: fix NULL dereference of dlc->session in RFCOMM_CONNINFO

The RFCOMM_CONNINFO getsockopt handler accepts a socket that is not connected as long as deferred setup is enabled:

if (sk->sk_state != BT_CONNECTED &&
			!rfcomm_pi(sk)->dlc->defer_setup) {
	err = -ENOTCONN;
	break;
}
l2cap_sk = rfcomm_pi(sk)->dlc->session->sock->sk;

dlc->defer_setup is set in rfcomm_sock_init() when rfcomm_connect_ind() creates a child socket for an incoming connection on a listening socket that has BT_DEFER_SETUP enabled. It is never cleared afterwards. The session, however, can go away underneath it.

rfcomm_recv_disc() forces the dlc state before tearing it down:

d->state = BT_CLOSED;
__rfcomm_dlc_close(d, err);

The RFCOMM_DEFER_SETUP early return in __rfcomm_dlc_close() only covers BT_CONNECT, BT_CONFIG, BT_OPEN and BT_CONNECT2, so with the state already BT_CLOSED that switch does not match and the function falls through to rfcomm_dlc_unlink(), which sets d->session = NULL, while d->defer_setup stays 1.

A getsockopt(SOL_RFCOMM, RFCOMM_CONNINFO) on the accepted socket after that point therefore skips the -ENOTCONN path – sk->sk_state is BT_CLOSED, but dlc->defer_setup is still set – and dereferences the NULL session. No race is needed: once the DISC has been processed, the dereference is unconditional.

Reproduced on a KASAN kernel under QEMU with a BR/EDR peer emulated over /dev/vhci: the peer brings up an ACL link, opens L2CAP on the RFCOMM PSM, starts a session and sends SABM for a channel bound with BT_DEFER_SETUP, and sends DISC for that dlci after the socket has been accepted. getsockopt(SOL_RFCOMM, RFCOMM_CONNINFO) on the accepted socket then hits:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000002: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 150 Comm: init Tainted: G B 7.3.0-rc3-g5dd1818b15d9 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) RIP: 0010:rfcomm_sock_getsockopt+0x529/0x780 Call Trace: do_sock_getsockopt+0x3ad/0x7d0 __sys_getsockopt+0x10e/0x1b0 __x64_sys_getsockopt+0xc2/0x160 do_syscall_64+0xda/0x4b0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

0x10 is the offset of sock in struct rfcomm_session; rfcomm_sock_getsockopt_old() is inlined into rfcomm_sock_getsockopt().

Commit 43a556b2fd43 (Bluetooth: RFCOMM: take rfcomm_mutex for the deferred setup accept) fixed the same a remote DISC clears the session while deferred setup is still flagged problem in rfcomm_dlc_accept(); this is the remaining instance of it, in the getsockopt path.

Deferred setup only leaves a socket usable here once it has reached BT_CONNECT2, so restrict the exception to that state and check that a session is actually present before following it.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/005b23d9e324fe5d0acbcfa70c625f2e81189046
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c4f7e1177da2f229be04139c27e5370a1cfba52
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46f8ffd0a1f1eb6cbc94946a92c11ef601e228a1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bf5ca47203049ce3648f750a53dcdc98bcc9e3e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84ae3cfd7d3a63591a2eb4faa24faf678c6708aa
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f5b30cc12c409ff62891e47ed51e6bf0945a3ea
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3aee3fc1287c8a555baf3895959087cb0c33fe8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7362f6a18ed167f52f08ce25eeec8a7818c5004