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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98739" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:47:23.653Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:56:15.633Z" 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-2026-98739" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98739.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98739" title: "Bluetooth: RFCOMM: Fix initial port reference race" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: RFCOMM: Fix initial port reference race\n\nFor RFCOMM_RELEASE_ONHUP devices, rfcomm_tty_install() and\n__rfcomm_release_dev() both use RFCOMM_TTY_OWNED to decide who drops the\ninitial tty_port reference. The release path tests the bit separately\nfrom the install path setting it, so both can drop that reference.\n\nThe synchronous hangup does not prevent this race: port-\u003etty is not\nassigned until tty_port_open(), after installation. The following\ninterleaving is possible:\n\n 1. Install and release each obtain a reference with rfcomm_dev_get().\n 2. Release observes RFCOMM_TTY_OWNED clear.\n 3. Install sets RFCOMM_TTY_OWNED and drops the initial reference.\n 4. Release drops the same initial reference again.\n 5. TTY cleanup drops its reference and frees the device.\n 6. Release performs its final tty_port_put() on the freed port.\n\nKASAN reported:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tty_port_put+0x22/0x190\n Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881001d3d5c by task poc/92\n\n Call Trace:\n tty_port_put+0x22/0x190\n rfcomm_dev_ioctl+0x1d4/0x1930\n sock_do_ioctl+0x110/0x260\n sock_ioctl+0x380/0x590\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1c0\n\n Allocated by task 88:\n rfcomm_dev_ioctl+0x8f6/0x1930\n sock_do_ioctl+0x110/0x260\n sock_ioctl+0x380/0x590\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1c0\n\n Freed by task 65:\n kfree+0x131/0x3c0\n rfcomm_dev_destruct+0x23b/0x2f0\n release_one_tty+0xc1/0x370\n process_one_work+0x661/0x1090\n\nUse test_and_set_bit() in both paths so that only the caller that changes\nRFCOMM_TTY_OWNED from clear to set drops the initial reference. Each path\nkeeps its own lookup reference until release or TTY cleanup, preserving\nthe existing callback ordering and error handling." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"80ea73378af46b0023eb2f400d26c2a60248ffaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55d162aa00d1ee33c3e6fa88b71f1e2d6e1441e9"},{"version":"80ea73378af46b0023eb2f400d26c2a60248ffaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a03ccf1ab77380d4c4a3c56552e12de4a83efa21"},{"version":"80ea73378af46b0023eb2f400d26c2a60248ffaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a554901bd227537f79220443b2b36d585d62893"},{"version":"80ea73378af46b0023eb2f400d26c2a60248ffaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e5aa7fbf7a4446bb89f0b8394b2dfc1a6b6aba5b"},{"version":"80ea73378af46b0023eb2f400d26c2a60248ffaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2d696c1ed3468dcb62578a3911e687110d463520"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.15"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","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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