# 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-2026-90255"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:54.775Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:00:31.949Z"
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-2026-90255"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90255.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90255"
title: "Bluetooth: hci_conn: fix the SCO setup context lifetime"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_conn: fix the SCO setup context lifetime\n\nhci_setup_sync() queues a conn_handle_t with a NULL destroy callback, so\nthe context is only freed if hci_enhanced_setup_sync() actually runs. An\nentry that is cancelled instead is leaked, as\n_hci_cmd_sync_cancel_entry() does not release entry-\u003edata when there is\nno destroy callback, and hci_cmd_sync_clear() cancels every pending entry\nwhen the controller is unregistered.\n\nThe context also stores a bare hci_conn pointer, so the connection can be\nfreed while the work is queued. The dequeue in hci_conn_del() does not\ncover it either, as it matches on entry-\u003edata == conn and entry-\u003edata is\nthe wrapper here. Same problem as commit 2f5d635ad590 (\"Bluetooth:\nhci_sync: hold conn in hci_connect_acl/le_sync() callbacks\").\n\nHold the connection and release both from a destroy callback. The\nsubmission failure path drops both, since hci_cmd_sync_submit() does not\ncall the destroy callback when it fails to queue."
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