CVE-2026-31511 (GCVE-0-2026-31511)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-22 13:54
Modified
2026-10-19 18:45
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix dangling pointer on mgmt_add_adv_patterns_monitor_complete This fixes the condition checking so mgmt_pending_valid is executed whenever status != -ECANCELED otherwise calling mgmt_pending_free(cmd) would kfree(cmd) without unlinking it from the list first, leaving a dangling pointer. Any subsequent list traversal (e.g., mgmt_pending_foreach during __mgmt_power_off, or another mgmt_pending_valid call) would dereference freed memory.
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Linux Linux Version: 0b60eb04b8524e1b4b3f07fea0d16fda9a677d9a
Version: d71b98f253b079cbadc83266383f26fe7e9e103b
Version: 302a1f674c00dd5581ab8e493ef44767c5101aab
Version: 302a1f674c00dd5581ab8e493ef44767c5101aab
Version: 302a1f674c00dd5581ab8e493ef44767c5101aab
Version: 87a1f16f07c6c43771754075e08f45b41d237421
Version: 6.12.59   ≤
Version: 6.16.10   ≤
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