CVE-2026-68189 PUBLISHED

Bluetooth: hci_sync: Protect UUID list traversal

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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

Bluetooth: hci_sync: Protect UUID list traversal

The hci_sync conversion moved class-of-device and EIR generation from an HCI request built under hdev->lock to asynchronous command sync work. The worker holds hdev->req_lock, but that lock does not serialize access to hdev->uuids against add_uuid() and remove_uuid(), which update the list under hdev->lock.

The following interleaving can therefore occur:

CPU0 (command sync work) CPU1 (management socket) fetch uuid from the list list_del(&uuid->list) kfree(uuid) read uuid->size

KASAN reports the resulting use-after-free:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in eir_create+0xb8f/0xee0 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88810dbd8620 by task kworker/u17:0/87 Workqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work Call Trace: eir_create+0xb8f/0xee0 hci_update_eir_sync+0x1c0/0x330 hci_cmd_sync_work+0x13c/0x290 process_one_work+0x63a/0x1070 worker_thread+0x45b/0xd10

Allocated by task 86: __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 add_uuid+0x18a/0x4b0 hci_sock_sendmsg+0x1033/0x1ea0

Freed by task 92: __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70 kfree+0x131/0x3c0 remove_uuid+0x25e/0x560 hci_sock_sendmsg+0x1033/0x1ea0

Hold hdev->lock while generating and committing the class-of-device and EIR snapshots. Release it before sending an HCI command, so controller waits do not happen under the device lock. This protects all UUID list walks in these paths and restores the serialization lost in the command sync conversion.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 161510ccf91c961638940b03abb1ee804be53a97 to e4fa2c5c261d736b8e58759fdef3a968d510630c (excl.)
  • affected from 161510ccf91c961638940b03abb1ee804be53a97 to a351f68fb24828b23a971e00b8238ee0e8a40380 (excl.)
  • affected from 161510ccf91c961638940b03abb1ee804be53a97 to a42f5536ea9c00e13f0c0fbb330feed95e2365ca (excl.)
  • affected from 161510ccf91c961638940b03abb1ee804be53a97 to fe13adc258df88d95789e5673c7ba5178b5f8b28 (excl.)
  • affected from 161510ccf91c961638940b03abb1ee804be53a97 to e9027ffbf5a0f3c12ca8900822e884eae9f0821b (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.17 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.17 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.148 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc5 to * (incl.)

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