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    "cveMetadata": {
        "cveId": "CVE-2026-98735",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.367Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-10-18T15:47:13.062Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-21T12:56:11.181Z"
    },
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_core: Serialize ACL scheduling with channel deletion\n\nhci_chan_sent() selects a channel under RCU but drops the read lock before\naccessing chan->conn and returning the channel. The ACL and LE schedulers\nthen use its packet queue and update its transmit counters without any\nprotection against channel deletion.\n\nAfter TX selects a channel and releases RCU, a disconnect command timeout\non the separate request workqueue can run hci_conn_failed() and\nl2cap_conn_del(). hci_chan_del() can then unlink the channel, complete\nsynchronize_rcu(), purge its queue and free it before TX resumes. This\ncauses use-after-free both in hci_chan_sent() and in its callers.\n\nKASAN reported:\n\n  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hci_chan_sent+0x892/0x9b0\n  Workqueue: hci0 hci_tx_work\n  Call Trace:\n   hci_chan_sent+0x892/0x9b0\n   hci_tx_work+0x5e6/0xb70\n  Allocated by task 91:\n   hci_chan_create+0xe3/0x350\n   l2cap_conn_add.part.0+0x12/0xa30\n   l2cap_chan_connect+0x110d/0x1b60\n   l2cap_sock_connect+0x310/0x530\n  Freed by task 99:\n   hci_chan_del+0x11f/0x170\n   l2cap_conn_del+0x4f1/0x800\n   l2cap_connect_cfm+0x88c/0xd30\n   hci_conn_failed+0x150/0x250\n   hci_abort_conn_sync+0x3e3/0x800\n   hci_cmd_sync_run+0x7e/0xc0\n   hci_abort_conn+0x105/0x1f0\n   disconnect_sync+0x157/0x290\n   hci_cmd_sync_work+0x13c/0x290\n\nHold the existing device mutex across channel selection and transmission\nin both schedulers to serialize them with channel teardown. Keep timeout\nhandling outside the critical sections because hci_link_tx_to() acquires\nthe same mutex. This also permits the transmit path to sleep, unlike\nextending the RCU read-side critical section across packet submission."
                }
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                    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
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                            "status": "affected",
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                    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
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                            "status": "affected"
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                            "status": "unaffected",
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                {
                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/780affacd92977fd9b819bdc4f26a6832cb27fda"
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4845ab191a4f686a5da481fbba90ed73bb693b0"
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