# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46111"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:35:19.970Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:26:43.906Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-46111"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46111.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46111"
title: "Bluetooth: hci_conn: fix potential UAF in create_big_sync"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_conn: fix potential UAF in create_big_sync\n\nAdd hci_conn_valid() check in create_big_sync() to detect stale\nconnections before proceeding with BIG creation. Handle the\nresulting -ECANCELED in create_big_complete() and re-validate the\nconnection under hci_dev_lock() before dereferencing, matching the\npattern used by create_le_conn_complete() and create_pa_complete().\n\nKeep the hci_conn object alive across the async boundary by taking\na reference via hci_conn_get() when queueing create_big_sync(), and\ndropping it in the completion callback. The refcount and the lock\nare complementary: the refcount keeps the object allocated, while\nhci_dev_lock() serializes hci_conn_hash_del()'s list_del_rcu() on\nhdev-\u003econn_hash, as required by hci_conn_del().\n\nhci_conn_put() is called outside hci_dev_unlock() so the final put\n(which resolves to kfree() via bt_link_release) does not run under\nhdev-\u003elock, though the release path would be safe either way.\n\nWithout this, create_big_complete() would unconditionally\ndereference the conn pointer on error, causing a use-after-free\nvia hci_connect_cfm() and hci_conn_del()."
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