Bug 2565283 (CVE-2026-99239) - CVE-2026-99239 kernel: kernel: Privilege escalation via race condition in Bluetooth L2CAP
Summary: CVE-2026-99239 kernel: kernel: Privilege escalation via race condition in Blu...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-99239
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-11-02 16:55 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-02 20:05 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-02 16:55:49 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: L2CAP: refuse __l2cap_chan_add if chan already has conn

l2cap_chan may be linked to l2cap_conn at most once. This is assumed in
several places, eg l2cap_chan_del cleanup.

There is a TOCTOU race where the invariant is violated:

    [Task 1]                          [Task 2]
    l2cap_chan_connect                l2cap_sock_bind
      l2cap_chan_lock                   lock_sock
      l2cap_state_change                if (sk->sk_state != BT_OPEN)
        chan->state = BT_CONNECT
        l2cap_sock_state_change_cb      chan->state = BT_BOUND
                                        sk->sk_state = BT_BOUND
          lock_sock <------------------ release_sock
          sk->sk_state = BT_CONNECT

l2cap_sock_connect() does not check sk->sk_state, so since chan->state
is now BT_BOUND, subsequent connect() ends up with second
__l2cap_chan_add.

Explicitly document and check the invariant in __l2cap_chan_add with
WARN_ON_ONCE. The only callsite where it could be hit is
l2cap_chan_connect, so add pre-check there to avoid relying on
chan->state. chan->state read/write is not properly guarded currently so
there can be other TOCTOUC problems.

Add l2cap_lock_chan in l2cap_sock_bind() to guard chan->state write.


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