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FKIE_CVE-2026-68392

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-10 13:20 - Updated: 2026-08-17 06:17

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: mgmt: fix locking in unpair_device/disconnect_sync Dereferencing RCU-protected pointers outside critical sections is invalid and may lead to UAF. Take hdev->lock for hci_conn lookup and hci_abort_conn(). Don't use RCU to ensure the conn is fully initialized at this point.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16cd66443957e4ad42155c6fec401012f600c6f8
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/579faba5ede6df6b7f36777c431dc8dcf9d272e7
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bc83f9ef6789571f399ff631a2a14a12b6d8585
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b11511006f9e17000de3f4cadee451364f658ca3
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca58ad287bfc5b9d31a72ecb8650289df2b57250

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-68392 (GCVE-0-2026-68392)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:04 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:04

Title

Bluetooth: mgmt: fix locking in unpair_device/disconnect_sync

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bc83f9ef6789571f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/579faba5ede6df6b7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca58ad287bfc5b9d3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b11511006f9e17000…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16cd66443957e4ad4…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 249c88e7fb45b6b705040c5af4bd0d0f2bc9735c , < 8bc83f9ef6789571f399ff631a2a14a12b6d8585 (git) Affected: 227a0cdf4a028a73dc256d0f5144b4808d718893 , < 579faba5ede6df6b7f36777c431dc8dcf9d272e7 (git) Affected: 227a0cdf4a028a73dc256d0f5144b4808d718893 , < ca58ad287bfc5b9d31a72ecb8650289df2b57250 (git) Affected: 227a0cdf4a028a73dc256d0f5144b4808d718893 , < b11511006f9e17000de3f4cadee451364f658ca3 (git) Affected: 227a0cdf4a028a73dc256d0f5144b4808d718893 , < 16cd66443957e4ad42155c6fec401012f600c6f8 (git) Affected: 58afdc9b18871eb1d461c725be9e9f3f44a39aeb (git) Affected: 6.6.51 , < 6.6.148 (semver) Affected: 6.10.10 , < 6.11 (semver)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.11 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2026-68392 (GCVE-0-2026-68392)

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