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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-93209" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-24T15:10:32.762Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:07:21.427Z" 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-2026-93209" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93209.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93209" title: "Bluetooth: hci_core: use skb_get() instead of skb_clone() for req_skb" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_core: use skb_get() instead of skb_clone() for req_skb\n\nBT enable fails intermittently with -ETIMEDOUT (-110). The kernel log\nshows the HCI Read Local Version command was sent and the firmware\nreplied with status 0x00 (logged by hci_req_cmd_complete() BT_DBG),\nbut the waiter in __hci_cmd_sync_sk() never woke up and timed out\nafter 10 s:\n\n bluetooth hci0: Opcode 0xfc00 // __hci_cmd_sync_sk\n bluetooth hci0: opcode 0xfc00 plen 1 // hci_cmd_sync_add\n bluetooth hci0: skb len 4 // hci_cmd_sync_alloc\n bluetooth hci0: length 1 // hci_req_sync_run\n Bluetooth: hci0 cmd_cnt 1 cmd queued 1 // hci_cmd_work\n Bluetooth: hci0 type 1 len 4 // hci_send_frame\n Bluetooth: opcode 0xfc00 status 0x00 // hci_req_cmd_complete\n \u003c-- req_skb NULL: req_complete_skb not set,\n hci_cmd_sync_complete() never called,\n req_status stays HCI_REQ_PEND --\u003e\n \u003c-- 10 s later: wait_event_interruptible_timeout expires --\u003e\n bluetooth hci0: end: err -110 // __hci_cmd_sync_sk\n\nThe root cause is that hci_send_cmd_sync() clones the sent command\ninto hdev-\u003ereq_skb so that hci_req_cmd_complete() can locate the\nregistered completion callback. Under memory pressure this\nskb_clone() fails, leaving hdev-\u003ereq_skb NULL. The firmware reply\nis received and processed, but hci_req_cmd_complete() finds NULL\nreq_skb, so hci_cmd_sync_complete() is never called, req_status\nstays HCI_REQ_PEND, and the waiter times out with -ETIMEDOUT.\n\nreq_skb is only used to read bt_cb(skb)-\u003ehci callbacks and opcode --\nit is never modified. Replace skb_clone() with skb_get(), which\nsimply increments the reference count of hdev-\u003esent_cmd without\nallocating new memory and therefore cannot fail.\n\nThis issue was first observed as a use-after-free in ttyport_close()\nwhen ttyport_open() failed, which was investigated in an earlier\npatch series [1]. That investigation led to the discovery of the\ntrue root cause described above.\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250430111617.1151390-1-quic_cxin@quicinc.com/" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"da77c1d39bc527b31890bfa0405763c82828defb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0337fb092873a4146aa854acb554675b49c8f6b5"},{"version":"2af7aa6685e22d0dc546b0d27e5f16d3afe211fa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5eef0747071934a1c080ee617fa4fd3566394c5"},{"version":"2615fd9a7c2507eb3be3fbe49dcec88a2f56454a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d7723320db4c9cb9ec2b9a36140e6c641dd77814"},{"version":"2615fd9a7c2507eb3be3fbe49dcec88a2f56454a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d0b28e9655f4b3195210627577f81883dc1d0162"},{"version":"2615fd9a7c2507eb3be3fbe49dcec88a2f56454a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"26f66d5b8a5663af498f7ccc94fc79fb47a2191f"},{"version":"2615fd9a7c2507eb3be3fbe49dcec88a2f56454a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f5afdff569a09d1cb8cf19826199d024725576cb"},{"version":"4ff121be63b761950610f422437aaaef8e075c40","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"18a4c59af609994552c8b39c5438304e070e55c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.83","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.118"},{"version":"6.6.23","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.157"},{"version":"6.7.11","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.8.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.1.118","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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