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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-46275" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-08T14:30:54.232Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:36:56.765Z" 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-2026-46275" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46275.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46275" title: "Bluetooth: hci_uart: fix UAFs and race conditions in close and init paths" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_uart: fix UAFs and race conditions in close and init paths\n\nVulnerabilities leading to Use-After-Free (UAF) and Null Pointer\nDereference (NPD) conditions were observed in the lifecycle management\nof hci_uart.\n\nThe primary issue arises because the workqueues (init_ready and\nwrite_work) are only flushed/cancelled if the HCI_UART_PROTO_READY\nflag is set during TTY close. If a hangup occurs before setup completes,\nhci_uart_tty_close() skips the teardown of these workqueues and\nproceeds to free the `hu` struct. When the scheduled work executes\nlater, it blindly dereferences the freed `hu` struct.\n\nFurthermore, several data races and UAFs were identified in the teardown\nsequence:\n1. Calling hci_uart_flush() from hci_uart_close() without effectively\n disabling write_work causes a race condition where both can concurrently\n double-free hu-\u003etx_skb. This happens because protocol timers can\n concurrently invoke hci_uart_tx_wakeup() and requeue write_work.\n2. Calling hci_free_dev(hdev) before hu-\u003eproto-\u003eclose(hu) causes a UAF\n when vendor specific protocol close callbacks dereference hu-\u003ehdev.\n3. In the initialization error paths, failing to take the proto_lock\n write lock before clearing PROTO_READY leads to races with active\n readers. Additionally, hci_uart_tty_receive() accesses hu-\u003ehdev\n outside the read lock, leading to UAFs if the initialization error\n path frees hdev concurrently.\n\nFix these synchronization and lifecycle issues by:\n1. Re-ordering hci_uart_tty_close() to clear HCI_UART_PROTO_READY first,\n followed immediately by a cancel_work_sync(&hu-\u003ewrite_work). Clearing\n the flag locks out concurrent protocol timers from successfully invoking\n hci_uart_tx_wakeup(), effectively rendering the cancellation permanent\n and preventing the tx_skb double-free.\n2. Note: Clearing PROTO_READY early causes hci_uart_close() to skip\n hu-\u003eproto-\u003eflush(). This is perfectly safe in the tty_close path\n because hu-\u003eproto-\u003eclose() executes shortly after, which intrinsically\n purges all protocol SKB queues and tears down the state.\n3. Relocating hu-\u003eproto-\u003eclose(hu) strictly prior to hci_free_dev(hdev)\n across all close and error paths to prevent vendor-level UAFs.\n4. Moving the hdev-\u003estat.byte_rx increment in hci_uart_tty_receive()\n inside the proto_lock read-side critical section to safely synchronize\n with device unregistration.\n5. Adding cancel_work_sync(&hu-\u003ewrite_work) to hci_uart_close() to safely\n flush the workqueue before hci_uart_flush() is invoked via the HCI core.\n6. Utilizing cancel_work_sync() instead of disable_work_sync() across\n all paths to prevent permanently breaking user-space retry capabilities." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3b799254cf6f481460719023d7a18f46651e5e7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"78aad93e938f013d9272fe0ee168f27883afa95c"},{"version":"3b799254cf6f481460719023d7a18f46651e5e7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2d19969c8d9198ecc3090bcd5312ecd503a3339"},{"version":"3b799254cf6f481460719023d7a18f46651e5e7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c85cff648a2bc92322912db5f1727ad05afae7b6"},{"version":"3b799254cf6f481460719023d7a18f46651e5e7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9d20d48be2c4a071fb015eb09bda2cecd25daf34"},{"version":"3b799254cf6f481460719023d7a18f46651e5e7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81c7a3c22a0f2808cf4ae0b4908f59763b23606d"},{"version":"3b799254cf6f481460719023d7a18f46651e5e7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"192cb0f1ca706d9a1bc36ae0ad5f666d1e4fd894"},{"version":"3b799254cf6f481460719023d7a18f46651e5e7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7338031946bd06f6dff149e67b60c4cd083bfea8"},{"version":"3b799254cf6f481460719023d7a18f46651e5e7f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1bb9336ae6b54a5f6a353c4bd4ed9a4307e429b"},{"version":"cd27019bc149f20f12ebec943c2b4c775745a5a0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"aea63181b6fcb6b9ccde1ada9ea51be19c4015af","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"0d234d1135dcd8876de0576dac68efd0a87eef87","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3fe978892ab46efc2f3830d9abc015eff72caaf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"0d987e14bebaf0f67ee7dbefaf6165c62cd1d27f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.14.203","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.153","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.73","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.8.17","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"version":"5.9.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.142","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.92","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.34","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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