# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64405"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:50:47.262Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:55:03.466Z"
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-2026-64405"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64405.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64405"
title: "Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix null ptr deref in hci_abort_conn()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_conn: Fix null ptr deref in hci_abort_conn()\n\nhci_abort_conn() read hci_skb_event(hdev-\u003esent_cmd) when a connection\nwas pending, but hdev-\u003esent_cmd can be NULL while req_status is still\nHCI_REQ_PEND, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and a general\nprotection fault from the hci_rx_work() receive path.\n\nInstead of inspecting hdev-\u003esent_cmd, track the in-flight create\nconnection command with a new per-connection HCI_CONN_CREATE flag and\nroute all cancellation through hci_cancel_connect_sync(), which\ndispatches to a dedicated per-type cancel function. The create command\nis in exactly one of two states: still queued, or in flight. The cancel\nfunction holds cmd_sync_work_lock across the whole decision: the worker\ntakes this lock to dequeue every entry, so while it is held a queued\ncommand cannot start running and an in-flight command cannot complete\nand let the next command become pending. This keeps the flag test and\nhci_cmd_sync_cancel() atomic with respect to the worker, so a queued\ncommand is simply dequeued, and an in-flight command owned by this\nconnection is cancelled without the risk of cancelling an unrelated\ncommand that became pending in the meantime. CIS uses the same flag\nmechanism via HCI_CONN_CREATE_CIS but cannot be dequeued per-connection.\n\nhci_acl_create_conn_sync() and hci_le_create_conn_sync() clear\nHCI_CONN_CREATE after the create command completes, but the command\nstatus handler can free conn via hci_conn_del() (for example when the\ncontroller rejects the connection) while the worker is still blocked on\nthe connection complete event. Hold a reference on conn across the\ncreate command so the flag can be cleared without a use-after-free."
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