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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97975"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:13.971Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:55.330Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97975"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97975.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97975"
title: "Bluetooth: hci_sysfs: Fix NULL pointer dereference in device_del()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_sysfs: Fix NULL pointer dereference in device_del()\n\nA NULL pointer dereference in klist_put() occurs when a child device (such\nas a BNEP network device in bnep_session) is concurrently being\nunregistered while hci_conn_del_sysfs() reparents child devices.\n\nThis is caused by a race condition between hci_conn_del_sysfs() and\nconcurrent child device unregistration (e.g. bnep_session calling\nunregister_netdev()). During device unregistration, device_del() snapshots\na non-NULL parent pointer. Concurrently, hci_conn_del_sysfs() finds the\nchild device using device_find_any_child() and calls device_move() to\nreparent it to NULL, which removes the node from its parent's klist and\nclears knode_parent. Subsequently, device_del() calls\nklist_del(&dev-\u003ep-\u003eknode_parent) using the stale parent snapshot, causing\nklist_put() to dereference knode_klist(n)-\u003eput on an already removed node,\nresulting in a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nThis race was introduced by commit 27aabf27fd01 (\"Bluetooth: fix\nuse-after-free in device_for_each_child()\"), which replaced\ndevice_find_child(..., __match_tty) with device_find_any_child() in\nhci_conn_del_sysfs(). That change was intended to avoid a use-after-free\nwhere conn-\u003edev outlived its parent hdev-\u003edev when child devices held\nreferences to conn-\u003edev, because conn-\u003edev only held a reference to\nhdev-\u003edev while registered in sysfs.\n\nFix the issue properly by taking an explicit reference to the parent device\nwith get_device(&hdev-\u003edev) in hci_conn_init_sysfs() and dropping it with\nput_device(parent) in bt_link_release() when the conn device is freed. This\nensures that hdev-\u003edev remains valid for the entire lifecycle of conn-\u003edev,\nresolving the underlying use-after-free. With the parent reference held\nproperly, restore the __match_tty filter in hci_conn_del_sysfs() so that\ndevice_move() is only invoked on persistent RFCOMM TTY devices as\noriginally intended, eliminating the race condition with unregistering\nnetwork devices."
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