Bug 2559789 (CVE-2026-99015)

Summary: CVE-2026-99015 kernel: Bluetooth: hci_sock: Serialize dead-device detachment
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: 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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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth subsystem. A local attacker can exploit this flaw to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by crashing the system. Due to missing lock synchronization when rebinding a Host Controller Interface (HCI) socket after a controller is unregistered, a race condition occurs that can lead to a NULL pointer dereference or use-after-free condition.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-23 13:38:17 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_sock: Serialize dead-device detachment

Rebinding an HCI socket after its controller is unregistered can race
monitor control replay and crash the kernel. hci_sock_bind() clears
hci_pi(sk)->hdev and drops the device reference under only the socket
lock, whereas send_monitor_control_replay() holds hci_sk_list.lock for
reading.

Replay can observe a non-NULL hdev, then bind can clear it and drop the
last reference before create_monitor_ctrl_open() reads hdev->id. This
can cause a NULL pointer dereference if the pointer is reloaded, or a
use-after-free if the old pointer is retained.

The kernel reported:

  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000068-0x000000000000006f]
  RIP: 0010:create_monitor_ctrl_open+0x579/0x800
  Call Trace:
   hci_sock_bind+0xd96/0x1190
   __sys_bind+0x166/0x200
   __x64_sys_bind+0x6d/0xb0
   do_syscall_64+0xdd/0x4a0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The same missing serialization lets hci_send_to_sock() select a socket
for the old device and queue its frame after bind has detached the socket
or installed a new binding.

Take hci_sk_list.lock for writing when clearing the device pointer and
resetting the socket state. This waits for existing replay and delivery
readers to finish before detachment and prevents later readers from
using the old binding. Keep hci_dev_put() outside the critical section
because the final device release can sleep.
Comment 1 gkamathe 2026-10-28 10:03:47 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-99015.mbox