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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98455" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:15:04.988Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:19:50.740Z" 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-2026-98455" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98455.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98455" title: "Bluetooth: RFCOMM: fix NULL dereference of dlc-\u003esession in RFCOMM_CONNINFO" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: RFCOMM: fix NULL dereference of dlc-\u003esession in RFCOMM_CONNINFO\n\nThe RFCOMM_CONNINFO getsockopt handler accepts a socket that is not\nconnected as long as deferred setup is enabled:\n\n\tif (sk-\u003esk_state != BT_CONNECTED &&\n\t\t\t\t!rfcomm_pi(sk)-\u003edlc-\u003edefer_setup) {\n\t\terr = -ENOTCONN;\n\t\tbreak;\n\t}\n\tl2cap_sk = rfcomm_pi(sk)-\u003edlc-\u003esession-\u003esock-\u003esk;\n\ndlc-\u003edefer_setup is set in rfcomm_sock_init() when rfcomm_connect_ind()\ncreates a child socket for an incoming connection on a listening socket\nthat has BT_DEFER_SETUP enabled. It is never cleared afterwards. The\nsession, however, can go away underneath it.\n\nrfcomm_recv_disc() forces the dlc state before tearing it down:\n\n\td-\u003estate = BT_CLOSED;\n\t__rfcomm_dlc_close(d, err);\n\nThe RFCOMM_DEFER_SETUP early return in __rfcomm_dlc_close() only covers\nBT_CONNECT, BT_CONFIG, BT_OPEN and BT_CONNECT2, so with the state\nalready BT_CLOSED that switch does not match and the function falls\nthrough to rfcomm_dlc_unlink(), which sets d-\u003esession = NULL, while\nd-\u003edefer_setup stays 1.\n\nA getsockopt(SOL_RFCOMM, RFCOMM_CONNINFO) on the accepted socket after\nthat point therefore skips the -ENOTCONN path -- sk-\u003esk_state is\nBT_CLOSED, but dlc-\u003edefer_setup is still set -- and dereferences the\nNULL session. No race is needed: once the DISC has been processed, the\ndereference is unconditional.\n\nReproduced on a KASAN kernel under QEMU with a BR/EDR peer emulated over\n/dev/vhci: the peer brings up an ACL link, opens L2CAP on the RFCOMM\nPSM, starts a session and sends SABM for a channel bound with\nBT_DEFER_SETUP, and sends DISC for that dlci after the socket has been\naccepted. getsockopt(SOL_RFCOMM, RFCOMM_CONNINFO) on the accepted\nsocket then hits:\n\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n 0xdffffc0000000002: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 150 Comm: init Tainted: G B 7.3.0-rc3-g5dd1818b15d9\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)\n RIP: 0010:rfcomm_sock_getsockopt+0x529/0x780\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n do_sock_getsockopt+0x3ad/0x7d0\n __sys_getsockopt+0x10e/0x1b0\n __x64_sys_getsockopt+0xc2/0x160\n do_syscall_64+0xda/0x4b0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n0x10 is the offset of sock in struct rfcomm_session;\nrfcomm_sock_getsockopt_old() is inlined into rfcomm_sock_getsockopt().\n\nCommit 43a556b2fd43 (\"Bluetooth: RFCOMM: take rfcomm_mutex for the\ndeferred setup accept\") fixed the same \"a remote DISC clears the session\nwhile deferred setup is still flagged\" problem in rfcomm_dlc_accept();\nthis is the remaining instance of it, in the getsockopt path.\n\nDeferred setup only leaves a socket usable here once it has reached\nBT_CONNECT2, so restrict the exception to that state and check that a\nsession is actually present before following it." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bb23c0ab824653be4aa7dfca15b07b3059717004","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c3aee3fc1287c8a555baf3895959087cb0c33fe8"},{"version":"bb23c0ab824653be4aa7dfca15b07b3059717004","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4bf5ca47203049ce3648f750a53dcdc98bcc9e3e"},{"version":"bb23c0ab824653be4aa7dfca15b07b3059717004","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c4f7e1177da2f229be04139c27e5370a1cfba52"},{"version":"bb23c0ab824653be4aa7dfca15b07b3059717004","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84ae3cfd7d3a63591a2eb4faa24faf678c6708aa"},{"version":"bb23c0ab824653be4aa7dfca15b07b3059717004","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7362f6a18ed167f52f08ce25eeec8a7818c5004"},{"version":"bb23c0ab824653be4aa7dfca15b07b3059717004","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f5b30cc12c409ff62891e47ed51e6bf0945a3ea"},{"version":"bb23c0ab824653be4aa7dfca15b07b3059717004","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"005b23d9e324fe5d0acbcfa70c625f2e81189046"},{"version":"bb23c0ab824653be4aa7dfca15b07b3059717004","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46f8ffd0a1f1eb6cbc94946a92c11ef601e228a1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.30","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.30"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"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":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","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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