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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53357" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-02T13:43:17.077Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:07:44.061Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z" 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-2026-53357" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53357.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53357" title: "Bluetooth: fix UAF in l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() vs l2cap_conn_del()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: fix UAF in l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() vs l2cap_conn_del()\n\nbt_accept_dequeue() unlinks a not-yet-accepted child from the parent\naccept queue and release_sock()s it before returning, so the returned\nsk has no caller reference and is unlocked.\n\nl2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() walks these children on listening-socket\nclose. A concurrent HCI disconnect drives hci_rx_work -\u003e\nl2cap_conn_del() which runs l2cap_chan_del() + l2cap_sock_kill() and\nfrees the child sk and its l2cap_chan; cleanup_listen() then uses both:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in l2cap_sock_kill\n l2cap_sock_kill / l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen / __x64_sys_close\n Freed by: l2cap_conn_del -\u003e l2cap_sock_close_cb -\u003e l2cap_sock_kill\n\nThis is distinct from the two fixes already in this area: commit\ne83f5e24da741 (\"Bluetooth: serialize accept_q access\") serialises the\naccept_q list/poll and takes temporary refs inside bt_accept_dequeue(),\nand CVE-2025-39860 serialises the userspace close()/accept() race by\ncalling cleanup_listen() under lock_sock() in l2cap_sock_release().\nNeither covers l2cap_conn_del() running from hci_rx_work, so this UAF\nstill reproduces on current bluetooth/master.\n\nTake the reference at the source: bt_accept_dequeue() does sock_hold()\nwhile sk is still locked, before release_sock(); callers sock_put().\ncleanup_listen() pins the chan with l2cap_chan_hold_unless_zero() under\na brief child sk lock (serialising vs l2cap_sock_teardown_cb()), drops\nit before l2cap_chan_lock(), and skips a duplicate l2cap_sock_kill() on\nSOCK_DEAD. conn-\u003elock is not taken here: cleanup_listen() runs under\nthe parent sk lock and that would invert\nconn-\u003elock -\u003e chan-\u003elock -\u003e sk_lock (lockdep).\n\nKASAN/SMP: an unprivileged listen/close vs HCI-disconnect race produced\n12 use-after-free reports per run before this change; 0, and no lockdep\nreport, over 1600+ raced iterations after it on bluetooth/master." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"15f02b91056253e8cdc592888f431da0731337b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"751de6ec671fe75ad9cf65a0638d2a06b6a5984d"},{"version":"15f02b91056253e8cdc592888f431da0731337b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"407217734835d21d4e0105ebf347860dc1806f88"},{"version":"15f02b91056253e8cdc592888f431da0731337b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7eebd4c2c86f573af87ff165d08a83432eb0b919"},{"version":"15f02b91056253e8cdc592888f431da0731337b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d86d2f1b4d9a508c441d3e45277ae1a73cfed57"},{"version":"15f02b91056253e8cdc592888f431da0731337b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87c543e2f78d0871f271df92dab98901bbd5b6f5"},{"version":"15f02b91056253e8cdc592888f431da0731337b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"added1213395071470a900cc845a042fb51882a6"},{"version":"15f02b91056253e8cdc592888f431da0731337b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a5ca86a6097a8b030ca3226cd300b17ed330f966"},{"version":"15f02b91056253e8cdc592888f431da0731337b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab1513597c6cf17cd1ad2a21e3b045421b48e022"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","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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