# 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-2026-99008"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:20:33.355Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:20:33.355Z"
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-2026-99008"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99008.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99008"
title: "Bluetooth: RFCOMM: Fix NULL tty_dev dereference in rfcomm_dev_shutdown"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: RFCOMM: Fix NULL tty_dev dereference in rfcomm_dev_shutdown\n\nsyzbot hit a NULL pointer dereference in rfcomm_dev_shutdown() when an\nRFCOMM tty is closed.\n\nrfcomm_dev_add() puts the new device on rfcomm_dev_list first and only\nthen registers the tty device and saves it in dev-\u003etty_dev. If that\nregistration fails, dev-\u003etty_dev is never set at all. The device can be\nlooked up in the meantime, so an open() of /dev/rfcommN gets through\nrfcomm_tty_install() and attaches to it. When that tty is closed again,\nrfcomm_dev_shutdown() uses dev-\u003etty_dev without checking it:\n\n  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000040-0x0000000000000047]\n  RIP: 0010:rfcomm_dev_shutdown+0x48/0xb0 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c:131\n  Call Trace:\n   tty_port_shutdown+0x1bf/0x220 drivers/tty/tty_port.c:372\n   tty_port_close+0x4e/0x150 drivers/tty/tty_port.c:705\n   tty_release+0x359/0x1670 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1718\n   __fput+0x418/0xa50 fs/file_table.c:512\n\nrfcomm_dev_destruct() already copes with a NULL dev-\u003etty_dev. Add the\nsame check to rfcomm_dev_shutdown(), so the tty device is only moved\nwhen it was actually registered."
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