Bug 2546505 (CVE-2026-98295)

Summary:	CVE-2026-98295 kernel: Bluetooth: coredump: Quiesce dump work on unregister
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth subsystem. A local user can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) or memory corruption by disconnecting a Bluetooth device during an active diagnostic crash dump. Because the system fails to cancel pending dump tasks upon device unregistration, background processes attempt to access the device data structure after it has been freed from memory, triggering a use-after-free condition.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:35:52 UTC

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

Bluetooth: coredump: Quiesce dump work on unregister

hci_devcd_handle_pkt_init() arms dump_timeout and coredump producers
queue dump_rx without holding an hdev reference. Unregister leaves both
works live, so disconnecting during an active dump lets them access hdev
after hci_release_dev() frees it.

Shut down coredump processing during unregister. Close the producer gate
under dump_q.lock before disabling both works, then free the active buffer
and queued packets under hci_dev_lock. Serializing the gate with enqueue
prevents controller-specific workers from adding packets after the final
purge.

Comment 1 gkamathe 2026-10-11 02:34:52 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-98295.mbox