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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98246" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:15.411Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:17.812Z" 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-2026-98246" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98246.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98246" title: "Bluetooth: hci_sync: Serialize local codec list cleanup" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_sync: Serialize local codec list cleanup\n\nhci_dev_close_sync() clears hdev-\u003elocal_codecs after releasing hdev-\u003elock.\nCodec list additions and both traversals in sco_sock_getsockopt() use that\nlock, but the close path does not. A close and BT_CODEC query can therefore\ninterleave as follows:\n\n hci_dev_close_sync() sco_sock_getsockopt()\n hci_dev_lock()\n fetch codec entry\n hci_codec_list_clear()\n kfree(entry)\n read entry-\u003eid\n\nThe reader then accesses an entry which the close path has freed. KASAN\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sco_sock_getsockopt+0xfa0/0xfe0\n Read of size 1 at addr ffff8881001c3450\n Call Trace:\n sco_sock_getsockopt+0xfa0/0xfe0\n do_sock_getsockopt+0x537/0x7b0\n __sys_getsockopt+0xf2/0x170\n Allocated by task 92:\n hci_codec_list_add.isra.0+0x2c/0x440\n hci_read_codec_capabilities+0x224/0x590\n hci_read_supported_codecs+0x2c2/0x640\n Freed by task 92:\n kfree+0x131/0x3c0\n hci_codec_list_clear+0xd8/0x160\n hci_dev_close_sync+0x92a/0xfa0\n\nTake hdev-\u003elock around the clear operation at its existing point in the\nclose path. This makes the clear wait for active readers and prevents a new\ntraversal until the list is empty without changing teardown ordering." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"626535077ba9dc110787540d1fe24881094c15a1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f407d52c0d881430d689836d3e7d32aa36f98b5"},{"version":"b938790e70540bf4f2e653dcd74b232494d06c8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"560ed4373c06a58123ecdf9ad5ecaddc87a73382"},{"version":"b938790e70540bf4f2e653dcd74b232494d06c8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ee0c5429dc4a92879bda2554b1bfd4abc6c587c"},{"version":"b938790e70540bf4f2e653dcd74b232494d06c8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4dc1ae5ff75b17e17ec4b74b11cc4b0099e71e00"},{"version":"b938790e70540bf4f2e653dcd74b232494d06c8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1276c2fafd18499769a28f96f45c5a76d6fc990e"},{"version":"b938790e70540bf4f2e653dcd74b232494d06c8f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a10987a2f160a44a638c9a35994ca6e3089696e"},{"version":"eea5a8f0c3b7c884d2351e75fbdd0a3d7def5ae1","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.57","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.189"},{"version":"6.5.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","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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