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        "cveId": "CVE-2026-98809",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.371Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-10-18T15:48:55.913Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-21T12:57:09.277Z"
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_sync: don't drain cmd_sync backlog on unregister\n\nhci_unregister_dev() disables cmd_work and cmd_timer, then calls\nhci_cmd_sync_clear(), whose cancel_work_sync() waits for\nhci_cmd_sync_work() to return. That worker dequeues and runs every\nentry on cmd_sync_work_list. With cmd_work disabled nothing reaches\nthe controller, so each queued HCI command waits the full\nHCI_CMD_TIMEOUT (2s).\n\nThe backlog has no bound. Userspace can keep queuing MGMT commands\nsuch as MGMT_OP_GET_CLOCK_INFO against a controller that doesn't\nanswer. Closing /dev/vhci then blocks in vhci_release() for\nbacklog * 2s:\n\n  INFO: task syz-executor:5749 blocked for more than 143 seconds.\n   cancel_work_sync\n   hci_cmd_sync_clear\n   hci_unregister_dev\n   vhci_release\n\nIn a local reproduction the backlog held more than 5000 entries,\nwhich comes to hours of hang.\n\nStop the worker from taking new entries once HCI_UNREGISTER is set,\nand wake any request still waiting with -ENODEV before cancelling\nthe work. The entries left over are destroyed with -ECANCELED by the\nexisting sweep in hci_cmd_sync_clear(). They stay on the list until\nthe work has stopped, so hci_cmd_sync_dequeue() and friends still see\nthem. A callback already running may still issue another command,\nwhich delays unregister by at most one timeout per remaining command,\nnot by the whole backlog."
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b11acfcb5925ed27fae692b27931a1ac732677fb"
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1f24c1ab52345e810c42a1a81286cb5a7c92252"
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