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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-63944"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:39.105Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:17:58.398Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-63944"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63944.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63944"
title: "Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix UAF in hci_le_create_cis_sync"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_sync: fix UAF in hci_le_create_cis_sync\n\nhci_le_create_cis_sync() dereferences conn-\u003econn_timeout after releasing\nboth rcu_read_lock() and hci_dev_lock(hdev).  The conn pointer was\nobtained from an RCU-protected iteration over hdev-\u003econn_hash.list and\nis not valid once these locks are dropped.  A concurrent disconnect can\nfree the hci_conn between the unlock and the dereference, causing a\nuse-after-free read.\n\nThe cancellation mechanism in hci_conn_del() cannot prevent this because\nhci_le_create_cis_pending() queues hci_create_cis_sync with data=NULL:\n\n    hci_cmd_sync_queue(hdev, hci_create_cis_sync, NULL, NULL);\n\nWhile hci_conn_del() dequeues with data=conn:\n\n    hci_cmd_sync_dequeue(hdev, NULL, conn, NULL);\n\nSince NULL != conn, the lookup in _hci_cmd_sync_lookup_entry() never\nmatches, and the pending work item is not cancelled.\n\nFix this by saving conn-\u003econn_timeout into a local variable while the\nlocks are still held, so the stale conn pointer is never dereferenced\nafter unlock.\n\nThis is the same class of bug as the one fixed by commit 035c25007c9e\n(\"Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix UAF on le_read_features_complete\") which\naddressed the identical pattern in a different function.\n\nThis vulnerability was identified using 0sec.ai, an open-source\nautomated security auditing platform (https://github.com/0sec-labs)."
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