# 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-2026-98632"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:19:56.287Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:23:00.460Z"
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-2026-98632"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98632.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98632"
title: "Bluetooth: mgmt: Dequeue pending mesh_send_sync entries on cancel"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: mgmt: Dequeue pending mesh_send_sync entries on cancel\n\nIn send_cancel(), pending mesh_tx objects are removed from the\nhdev-\u003emesh_pending list and freed via mesh_send_complete().  However, if\na mesh transmission was already queued onto hdev-\u003ecmd_sync_work_list via\nmesh_next(), the queued entry retains a raw pointer to mesh_tx.\n\nWhen hci_cmd_sync_work later processes the entry, it attempts to execute\nmesh_send_sync and its destroy callback mesh_send_start_complete using\nthe already freed mesh_tx pointer, leading to a use-after-free.\n\nFix this by invoking hci_cmd_sync_dequeue() for mesh_send_sync on the\ntarget mesh_tx before completing it.  If the entry is found and dequeued,\nits destroy callback will complete and free the object; otherwise,\nmesh_send_complete() is called directly.\n\nAdditionally, ensure the transmission queue advances after cancellation\nor errors.  In mesh_send_start_complete(), call mesh_next() on error\nunless err is -ECANCELED, because hci_cmd_sync_dequeue() holds\nhdev-\u003ecmd_sync_work_lock and calling mesh_next() synchronously would\ndeadlock.  Instead, advance the queue in send_cancel() once the lock is\nreleased and if no transmission is in progress."
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