CVE-2026-64408 PUBLISHED

Bluetooth: bnep: pin L2CAP connection during netdev registration

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 25.07.2026 Updated: 25.07.2026

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

Bluetooth: bnep: pin L2CAP connection during netdev registration

bnep_add_connection() reads the L2CAP connection without holding the channel lock, then passes its HCI device to register_netdev(). Controller teardown can clear and release that connection concurrently, leaving the network device registration path to dereference a freed parent device.

Take a reference to the L2CAP connection while holding the channel lock. Retain it until register_netdev() has taken the parent device reference.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b to 390b5db3ff8745187f094c4e915663b7b1f98944 (excl.)
  • affected from 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b to 46a88784c4c9b96954dd86f747ce93f65efa1302 (excl.)
  • affected from 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b to 551ae773ec64045b4e72099132654887e0270bcc (excl.)
  • affected from 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b to ae215c5b6422d8eda443b861b124bd1be6969c31 (excl.)
  • affected from 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b to df22adc7eafc22e651561813c11dc51a796b12ee (excl.)
  • affected from 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b to a6b22dbd80926556290ad2243be25218d6956a19 (excl.)
  • affected from 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b to 563a8573047182f550b1e1e030615755cd8c41da (excl.)
  • affected from 65f53e9802dbfae0e5758a91793c3f5f8bece49b to bb067a99a0356196c0b89a95721985485ebce5a5 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.13 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.13 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.261 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.212 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.178 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.145 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.96 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.39 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc3 to * (incl.)

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