CVE-2026-74536 PUBLISHED

Bluetooth: ISO: fix leaking sk after socket release

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 15.08.2026 Updated: 15.08.2026

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

Bluetooth: ISO: fix leaking sk after socket release

iso_sock_kill() tests !sock_flag(sk, SOCK_ZAPPED) || sk->sk_socket || sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD) for early return, but this is always true since sock_orphan(sk) sets SOCK_DEAD, so the sk reference released by socket always leaks, iso_sock_destruct is never called.

The socket reference also leaks when __iso_sock_close() does not set SOCK_ZAPPED, since iso_conn_del() does not call iso_sock_kill() after zapping.

Fix by replacing SOCK_DEAD by BT_SK_KILLED flag that is not used for something else, and lock_sock to ensure iso_sock_kill() puts sk only after socket release only once. Release and iso_conn_del may run concurrently. Call iso_sock_kill() from iso_conn_del() to clean sk up after zapping.

Remove call to iso_sock_kill() from iso_sock_close(), as it's generally no-op there.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ccf74f2390d60a2f9a75ef496d2564abb478f46a to 96ed3c772c08e7a91c399567f412618e43231023 (excl.)
  • affected from ccf74f2390d60a2f9a75ef496d2564abb478f46a to e76a0ae6542ae43241b2147bacf4990e7ae5316a (excl.)
  • affected from ccf74f2390d60a2f9a75ef496d2564abb478f46a to e30e5ca63c8fbe3cd505fbb419bb547760cda633 (excl.)
  • affected from ccf74f2390d60a2f9a75ef496d2564abb478f46a to ce57442a379212fe3fda59c9437ee8217eceb5b1 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.103 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.44 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.8 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc6 to * (incl.)

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