CVE-2026-98733 PUBLISHED

Bluetooth: hci_core: Serialize fragmented ISO packet queueing

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

Bluetooth: hci_core: Serialize fragmented ISO packet queueing

The fragmented path in hci_queue_iso() calls __skb_queue_tail() without holding conn->data_q.lock. The socket lock serializes senders, but the transmit worker can concurrently remove packets from this queue using skb_dequeue().

After an insertion saves the old tail pointer, hci_sched_iso() can dequeue that packet and pass it to the driver. The driver can free the packet before the insertion resumes and writes to the old tail's next pointer, causing a use-after-free. Concurrent updates can also corrupt the queue.

KASAN reported:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hci_send_iso+0xc7d/0xe10 Call Trace: hci_send_iso+0xc7d/0xe10 iso_sock_sendmsg+0x710/0x900 __sys_sendto+0x34a/0x3a0

Allocated by task 86: __alloc_skb+0xdd/0x820 alloc_skb_with_frags+0x7e/0x770 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x67a/0x820 bt_skb_sendmsg.constprop.0+0xc0/0x6c0 iso_sock_sendmsg+0x44e/0x900

Freed by task 90: kmem_cache_free+0xcb/0x3d0 vhci_read+0x33f/0x4d0 vfs_read+0x177/0xa20

Hold the queue lock across the entire fragment batch, as hci_queue_acl() does, to serialize insertion against dequeue while preserving fragment ordering.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 26afbd826ee326e63a334c37fd45e82e50a615ec to d6d709981208567868c5c01ebd1bec5e5e7fdab0 (excl.)
  • affected from 26afbd826ee326e63a334c37fd45e82e50a615ec to 708cdd203d0bbcf9255fffb2e4c308d5b28851a7 (excl.)
  • affected from 26afbd826ee326e63a334c37fd45e82e50a615ec to a7161730a3ab3f0a3896000db7ab0284683936e6 (excl.)
  • affected from 26afbd826ee326e63a334c37fd45e82e50a615ec to 1a572db43c057566771b485598ad2e66cb390821 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.113 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.56 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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