CVE-2026-90253 PUBLISHED

Bluetooth: MGMT: free the mesh send cancel command when it is cancelled

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

Bluetooth: MGMT: free the mesh send cancel command when it is cancelled

mesh_send_cancel() queues the pending command with a NULL destroy callback, so it is only freed if send_cancel() runs. A cancelled entry is leaked, as _hci_cmd_sync_cancel_entry() does not release entry->data when there is no destroy callback, and hci_cmd_sync_clear() cancels every pending entry when the controller is unregistered. Nothing else reclaims it either: mgmt_pending_new() does not put the command on hdev->mgmt_pending.

The leak also pins the socket reference taken by mgmt_pending_new(), so the mgmt socket is never released.

Free the command from a destroy callback.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from b338d91703fae6f6afd67f3f75caa3b8f36ddef3 to b609341ee56967d9a45845ff26f79336d2114b55 (excl.)
  • affected from b338d91703fae6f6afd67f3f75caa3b8f36ddef3 to 416fabca9b7237b76aa9cafcf8c497b8ac00d88c (excl.)
  • affected from b338d91703fae6f6afd67f3f75caa3b8f36ddef3 to 88e30d036d777b00aed42bd35000de23ff40910c (excl.)
  • affected from b338d91703fae6f6afd67f3f75caa3b8f36ddef3 to 05438d338a875a9daa08ca3f6a35b4480cf13de4 (excl.)
  • affected from b338d91703fae6f6afd67f3f75caa3b8f36ddef3 to fa46d428c014e7b72a18634679815670418e67dc (excl.)
  • affected from b338d91703fae6f6afd67f3f75caa3b8f36ddef3 to 3c742feda8fcabf741a17bcf668b63c8f606f9c5 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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