Bug 2554998 (CVE-2026-98633)

Summary:	CVE-2026-98633 kernel: Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Fix skb leak in nxp_process_fw_dump()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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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 NXP UART driver, which can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS). When device coredump support is disabled in the kernel configuration, handling firmware dump data fails to release cloned socket buffers upon encountering an unsupported operation error. A local attacker capable of triggering firmware dumps can exploit this behavior to exhaust kernel memory and prevent device recovery, leaving the Bluetooth interface unresponsive.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:38:15 UTC

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

Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Fix skb leak in nxp_process_fw_dump()

When CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP=n, hci_devcd_append() returns -EOPNOTSUPP
without freeing its skb argument. This leaks the cloned skb and also
prevents nxp_set_ind_reset() from being called to perform recovery.

Fix by guarding the hci_devcd_append(hdev, skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC))
call with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEV_COREDUMP).