# 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-2026-90254"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:54.123Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:00:30.990Z"
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-2026-90254"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90254.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90254"
title: "Bluetooth: hci_sync: free the advertising instance on the failure and cancel paths"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_sync: free the advertising instance on the failure and cancel paths\n\nadv_timeout_expire() hands a kmalloc()ed instance byte to\nhci_cmd_sync_queue() with a NULL destroy callback, and only\nadv_timeout_expire_sync() frees it. That leaks on two paths:\n\n - the return value is not checked, and hci_cmd_sync_queue() does not\n   take ownership when it fails (-ENETDOWN, -ENODEV, -ENOMEM);\n\n - a cancelled entry is not released, as _hci_cmd_sync_cancel_entry()\n   does not free entry-\u003edata when there is no destroy callback.\n   hci_cmd_sync_clear() cancels every pending entry when the controller\n   is unregistered.\n\nFree the buffer from a destroy callback, and in the caller when the entry\ncould not be queued at all."
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