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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43023" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-01T14:15:25.736Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:06:09.917Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z" 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-2026-43023" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43023.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43023" title: "Bluetooth: SCO: fix race conditions in sco_sock_connect()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: SCO: fix race conditions in sco_sock_connect()\n\nsco_sock_connect() checks sk_state and sk_type without holding\nthe socket lock. Two concurrent connect() syscalls on the same\nsocket can both pass the check and enter sco_connect(), leading\nto use-after-free.\n\nThe buggy scenario involves three participants and was confirmed\nwith additional logging instrumentation:\n\n Thread A (connect): HCI disconnect: Thread B (connect):\n\n sco_sock_connect(sk) sco_sock_connect(sk)\n sk_state==BT_OPEN sk_state==BT_OPEN\n (pass, no lock) (pass, no lock)\n sco_connect(sk): sco_connect(sk):\n hci_dev_lock hci_dev_lock\n hci_connect_sco \u003c- blocked\n -\u003e hcon1\n sco_conn_add-\u003econn1\n lock_sock(sk)\n sco_chan_add:\n conn1-\u003esk = sk\n sk-\u003econn = conn1\n sk_state=BT_CONNECT\n release_sock\n hci_dev_unlock\n hci_dev_lock\n sco_conn_del:\n lock_sock(sk)\n sco_chan_del:\n sk-\u003econn=NULL\n conn1-\u003esk=NULL\n sk_state=\n BT_CLOSED\n SOCK_ZAPPED\n release_sock\n hci_dev_unlock\n (unblocked)\n hci_connect_sco\n -\u003e hcon2\n sco_conn_add\n -\u003e conn2\n lock_sock(sk)\n sco_chan_add:\n sk-\u003econn=conn2\n sk_state=\n BT_CONNECT\n // zombie sk!\n release_sock\n hci_dev_unlock\n\nThread B revives a BT_CLOSED + SOCK_ZAPPED socket back to\nBT_CONNECT. Subsequent cleanup triggers double sock_put() and\nuse-after-free. Meanwhile conn1 is leaked as it was orphaned\nwhen sco_conn_del() cleared the association.\n\nFix this by:\n- Moving lock_sock() before the sk_state/sk_type checks in\n sco_sock_connect() to serialize concurrent connect attempts\n- Fixing the sk_type != SOCK_SEQPACKET check to actually\n return the error instead of just assigning it\n- Adding a state re-check in sco_connect() after lock_sock()\n to catch state changes during the window between the locks\n- Adding sco_pi(sk)-\u003econn check in sco_chan_add() to prevent\n double-attach of a socket to multiple connections\n- Adding hci_conn_drop() on sco_chan_add failure to prevent\n HCI connection leaks" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"70a13b1e25fef37c87c8a1228ddb8900efbca7cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dabf22269242e2f2bf44c43fcdc2fa763df7f9cc"},{"version":"9a8ec9e8ebb5a7c0cfbce2d6b4a6b67b2b78e8f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"adb90cd0f9f7a8d438fcb93354040fbafc5ae2a0"},{"version":"9a8ec9e8ebb5a7c0cfbce2d6b4a6b67b2b78e8f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e296ffdab5bdab718dff7c14288fdcb9154fa27"},{"version":"9a8ec9e8ebb5a7c0cfbce2d6b4a6b67b2b78e8f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"98c8d3bfdaa657d8f472dbbebd7ea8cd816d8a8d"},{"version":"9a8ec9e8ebb5a7c0cfbce2d6b4a6b67b2b78e8f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d002bd11024bd231bcb606877e33951ffb7bed14"},{"version":"9a8ec9e8ebb5a7c0cfbce2d6b4a6b67b2b78e8f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8a5b0135d4a5d9683203a3d9a12a711ccec5936b"},{"version":"6.1.109","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.168"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"6.1.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.134","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","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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