# 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-2026-74540"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:51.522Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:54.604Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74540"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74540.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74540"
title: "Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix UAF in l2cap_le_connect_rsp"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: L2CAP: fix UAF in l2cap_le_connect_rsp\n\nl2cap_le_connect_rsp() obtains a channel via\n__l2cap_get_chan_by_ident() but neither holds a reference nor uses\nl2cap_chan_hold_unless_zero() before locking and operating on it.\nA concurrent l2cap_chan_del() triggered by a remote disconnect can\nfree the channel between the lookup and l2cap_chan_lock(), causing\na use-after-free.\n\nThe BR/EDR counterpart l2cap_connect_rsp() and the sibling handler\nl2cap_le_command_rej() already use l2cap_chan_hold_unless_zero()\nto safely hold a reference, but l2cap_le_connect_rsp() was left\nunprotected.\n\nFix by adding l2cap_chan_hold_unless_zero() after the ident lookup\nand l2cap_chan_put() on the exit path, consistent with other L2CAP\nresponse handlers."
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