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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-23146" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-02-14T16:01:16.169Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:25:33.428Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23146" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23146.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23146" title: "Bluetooth: hci_uart: fix null-ptr-deref in hci_uart_write_work" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_uart: fix null-ptr-deref in hci_uart_write_work\n\nhci_uart_set_proto() sets HCI_UART_PROTO_INIT before calling\nhci_uart_register_dev(), which calls proto-\u003eopen() to initialize\nhu-\u003epriv. However, if a TTY write wakeup occurs during this window,\nhci_uart_tx_wakeup() may schedule write_work before hu-\u003epriv is\ninitialized, leading to a NULL pointer dereference in\nhci_uart_write_work() when proto-\u003edequeue() accesses hu-\u003epriv.\n\nThe race condition is:\n\n CPU0 CPU1\n ---- ----\n hci_uart_set_proto()\n set_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_INIT)\n hci_uart_register_dev()\n tty write wakeup\n hci_uart_tty_wakeup()\n hci_uart_tx_wakeup()\n schedule_work(&hu-\u003ewrite_work)\n proto-\u003eopen(hu)\n // initializes hu-\u003epriv\n hci_uart_write_work()\n hci_uart_dequeue()\n proto-\u003edequeue(hu)\n // accesses hu-\u003epriv (NULL!)\n\nFix this by moving set_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_INIT) after proto-\u003eopen()\nsucceeds, ensuring hu-\u003epriv is initialized before any work can be\nscheduled." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a40f94f7caa8d3421b64f63ac31bc0f24c890f39","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b0a900939e7e4866d9b90e9112514b72c451e873"},{"version":"9e5a0f5777162e503400c70c6ed25fbbe2d38799","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ccc683f597ceb28deb966427ae948e5ac739a909"},{"version":"80f14e9de6a43a0bd8194cad1003a3e6dcbc3984","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"937a573423ce5a96fdb1fd425dc6b8d8d4ab5779"},{"version":"02e1bcdfdf769974e7e9fa285e295cd9852e2a38","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"186d147cf7689ba1f9b3ddb753ab634a84940cc9"},{"version":"281782d2c6730241e300d630bb9f200d831ede71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"53e54cb31e667fca05b1808b990eac0807d1dab0"},{"version":"5df5dafc171b90d0b8d51547a82657cd5a1986c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"03e8c90c62233382042b7bd0fa8b8900552fdb62"},{"version":"5df5dafc171b90d0b8d51547a82657cd5a1986c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c3cd7a0b862c37acbee6d9502107146cc944398"},{"version":"1dcf08fcff5ca529de6dc0395091f28854f4e54a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"8e5aff600539e5faea294d9612cca50220e602b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"db7509fa110dd9b11134b75894677f30353b2c51","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.237","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.249"},{"version":"5.15.181","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.199"},{"version":"6.1.135","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.162"},{"version":"6.6.88","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.123"},{"version":"6.12.24","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.69"},{"version":"5.4.293","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.13.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.14.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"5.10.249","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.199","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.162","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.123","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.69","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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