CVE-2026-90254 (GCVE-0-2026-90254)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-17 16:07
Modified
2026-10-19 09:00
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_sync: free the advertising instance on the failure and cancel paths adv_timeout_expire() hands a kmalloc()ed instance byte to hci_cmd_sync_queue() with a NULL destroy callback, and only adv_timeout_expire_sync() frees it. That leaks on two paths: - the return value is not checked, and hci_cmd_sync_queue() does not take ownership when it fails (-ENETDOWN, -ENODEV, -ENOMEM); - a cancelled entry is not released, as _hci_cmd_sync_cancel_entry() does not free entry->data when there is no destroy callback. hci_cmd_sync_clear() cancels every pending entry when the controller is unregistered. Free the buffer from a destroy callback, and in the caller when the entry could not be queued at all.
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Linux Linux Version: c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c
Version: c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c
Version: c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c
Version: c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c
Version: c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c
Version: c249ea9b4309cf3250c5bbb42a05d38d0ed9071c
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