# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23461"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-03T15:15:41.051Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:35:45.372Z"
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-2026-23461"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23461.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23461"
title: "Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_unregister_user"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_unregister_user\n\nAfter commit ab4eedb790ca (\"Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix corrupted list in\nhci_chan_del\"), l2cap_conn_del() uses conn-\u003elock to protect access to\nconn-\u003eusers. However, l2cap_register_user() and l2cap_unregister_user()\ndon't use conn-\u003elock, creating a race condition where these functions can\naccess conn-\u003eusers and conn-\u003ehchan concurrently with l2cap_conn_del().\n\nThis can lead to use-after-free and list corruption bugs, as reported\nby syzbot.\n\nFix this by changing l2cap_register_user() and l2cap_unregister_user()\nto use conn-\u003elock instead of hci_dev_lock(), ensuring consistent locking\nfor the l2cap_conn structure."
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