# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31511"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-22T13:54:29.420Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:45:54.516Z"
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-2026-31511"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31511.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31511"
title: "Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix dangling pointer on mgmt_add_adv_patterns_monitor_complete"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: MGMT: Fix dangling pointer on mgmt_add_adv_patterns_monitor_complete\n\nThis fixes the condition checking so mgmt_pending_valid is executed\nwhenever status != -ECANCELED otherwise calling mgmt_pending_free(cmd)\nwould kfree(cmd) without unlinking it from the list first, leaving a\ndangling pointer. Any subsequent list traversal (e.g.,\nmgmt_pending_foreach during __mgmt_power_off, or another\nmgmt_pending_valid call) would dereference freed memory."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0b60eb04b8524e1b4b3f07fea0d16fda9a677d9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2074dfffad76981ca451cb7fc98703d04ac562fe"},{"version":"d71b98f253b079cbadc83266383f26fe7e9e103b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"340666172cf747de58c283d2eef1f335f050538b"},{"version":"302a1f674c00dd5581ab8e493ef44767c5101aab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bafec9325d4de26b6c49db75b5d5172de652aae0"},{"version":"302a1f674c00dd5581ab8e493ef44767c5101aab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a89c33deffb3cb7877a7ea2e50734cd12b064f2"},{"version":"302a1f674c00dd5581ab8e493ef44767c5101aab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f5fa4cd35f707344f65ce9e225b6528691dbbaa"},{"version":"87a1f16f07c6c43771754075e08f45b41d237421","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.12.59","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.80"},{"version":"6.16.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.17"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.17"},{"version":"6.12.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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