# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90253"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:53.435Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:00:30.044Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90253"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90253.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90253"
title: "Bluetooth: MGMT: free the mesh send cancel command when it is cancelled"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: MGMT: free the mesh send cancel command when it is cancelled\n\nmesh_send_cancel() queues the pending command with a NULL destroy\ncallback, so it is only freed if send_cancel() runs. A cancelled entry is\nleaked, as _hci_cmd_sync_cancel_entry() does not release entry-\u003edata when\nthere is no destroy callback, and hci_cmd_sync_clear() cancels every\npending entry when the controller is unregistered. Nothing else reclaims\nit either: mgmt_pending_new() does not put the command on\nhdev-\u003emgmt_pending.\n\nThe leak also pins the socket reference taken by mgmt_pending_new(), so\nthe mgmt socket is never released.\n\nFree the command from a destroy callback."
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