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CVE-2026-53357

Bluetooth: fix UAF in l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() vs l2cap_conn_del()

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

Bluetooth: fix UAF in l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() vs l2cap_conn_del()

bt_accept_dequeue() unlinks a not-yet-accepted child from the parent
accept queue and release_sock()s it before returning, so the returned
sk has no caller reference and is unlocked.

l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() walks these children on listening-socket
close.  A concurrent HCI disconnect drives hci_rx_work ->
l2cap_conn_del() which runs l2cap_chan_del() + l2cap_sock_kill() and
frees the child sk and its l2cap_chan; cleanup_listen() then uses both:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in l2cap_sock_kill
    l2cap_sock_kill / l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen / __x64_sys_close
  Freed by: l2cap_conn_del -> l2cap_sock_close_cb -> l2cap_sock_kill

This is distinct from the two fixes already in this area: commit
e83f5e24da741 ("Bluetooth: serialize accept_q access") serialises the
accept_q list/poll and takes temporary refs inside bt_accept_dequeue(),
and CVE-2025-39860 serialises the userspace close()/accept() race by
calling cleanup_listen() under lock_sock() in l2cap_sock_release().
Neither covers l2cap_conn_del() running from hci_rx_work, so this UAF
still reproduces on current bluetooth/master.

Take the reference at the source: bt_accept_dequeue() does sock_hold()
while sk is still locked, before release_sock(); callers sock_put().
cleanup_listen() pins the chan with l2cap_chan_hold_unless_zero() under
a brief child sk lock (serialising vs l2cap_sock_teardown_cb()), drops
it before l2cap_chan_lock(), and skips a duplicate l2cap_sock_kill() on
SOCK_DEAD.  conn->lock is not taken here: cleanup_listen() runs under
the parent sk lock and that would invert
conn->lock -> chan->lock -> sk_lock (lockdep).

KASAN/SMP: an unprivileged listen/close vs HCI-disconnect race produced
12 use-after-free reports per run before this change; 0, and no lockdep
report, over 1600+ raced iterations after it on bluetooth/master.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.7 < 5.10.259
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.210
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.175
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.142
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.92
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.34
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 7.0.11
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CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 8 2.1 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/751de6ec671fe75ad9cf65a0638d2a06b6a5984d
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/407217734835d21d4e0105ebf347860dc1806f88
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7eebd4c2c86f573af87ff165d08a83432eb0b919
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d86d2f1b4d9a508c441d3e45277ae1a73cfed57
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87c543e2f78d0871f271df92dab98901bbd5b6f5
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/added1213395071470a900cc845a042fb51882a6
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5ca86a6097a8b030ca3226cd300b17ed330f966
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab1513597c6cf17cd1ad2a21e3b045421b48e022
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