Bug 2546341 (CVE-2026-98246) - CVE-2026-98246 kernel: Bluetooth: hci_sync: Serialize local codec list cleanup
Summary: CVE-2026-98246 kernel: Bluetooth: hci_sync: Serialize local codec list cleanup
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98246
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-06 09:00 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-11 06:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:00:09 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_sync: Serialize local codec list cleanup

hci_dev_close_sync() clears hdev->local_codecs after releasing hdev->lock.
Codec list additions and both traversals in sco_sock_getsockopt() use that
lock, but the close path does not. A close and BT_CODEC query can therefore
interleave as follows:

  hci_dev_close_sync()          sco_sock_getsockopt()
                                hci_dev_lock()
                                fetch codec entry
  hci_codec_list_clear()
    kfree(entry)
                                read entry->id

The reader then accesses an entry which the close path has freed. KASAN

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sco_sock_getsockopt+0xfa0/0xfe0
  Read of size 1 at addr ffff8881001c3450
  Call Trace:
   sco_sock_getsockopt+0xfa0/0xfe0
   do_sock_getsockopt+0x537/0x7b0
   __sys_getsockopt+0xf2/0x170
  Allocated by task 92:
   hci_codec_list_add.isra.0+0x2c/0x440
   hci_read_codec_capabilities+0x224/0x590
   hci_read_supported_codecs+0x2c2/0x640
  Freed by task 92:
   kfree+0x131/0x3c0
   hci_codec_list_clear+0xd8/0x160
   hci_dev_close_sync+0x92a/0xfa0

Take hdev->lock around the clear operation at its existing point in the
close path. This makes the clear wait for active readers and prevents a new
traversal until the list is empty without changing teardown ordering.


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