{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-74529","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2026-08-15T05:44:03.912Z","datePublished":"2026-08-15T12:27:44.783Z","dateUpdated":"2026-08-17T05:48:18.894Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-08-17T05:48:18.894Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_sync: hold conn in hci_connect_pa_sync() callback\n\nThere is theoretical UAF if the conn is freed while the hci_sync task is\nrunning.\n\nHold refcount to avoid that."}],"metrics":[{"cvssV3_1":{"version":"3.1","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","baseScore":7.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH"},"scenarios":[{"lang":"en","value":"AV:L - Reached only via local AF_BLUETOOTH BTPROTO_ISO SOCK_SEQPACKET listen() for LE broadcast PA sync (iso_listen_bis→hci_pa_create_sync→hci_connect_pa_sync); no over-the-air packet parsing triggers the bug and a remote Bluetooth peer alone cannot invoke it.\nAC:L - Use-after-free race is attacker-controlled: a local process can listen() to start hci_le_pa_create_sync and immediately close/unlink the socket to drop the PA_LINK hci_conn while cmd_sync_work is still running, retrying until the callback dereferences freed memory.\nPR:L - ISO sockets perform no capability checks in iso_sock_create/bt_sock_create (only init_net), so any unprivileged local user who can open AF_BLUETOOTH sockets on a BT_ISO-capable host can reach hci_connect_pa_sync without CAP_NET_ADMIN or root.\nUI:N - Exploitation requires no victim action; the attacker opens, binds, and listens on their own ISO socket and races teardown—typical on phones/headsets running LE Audio broadcast receivers with Bluetooth access granted to the attacking app/process.\nS:U - Impact stays within kernel memory via hci_conn UAF in create_pa_complete/hci_le_pa_create_sync; this is standard kernel memory corruption/privilege escalation, not a cross-boundary escape (VM, IOMMU, or sandbox).\nC:H - UAF of struct hci_conn lets an attacker influence freed slab contents and read adjacent kernel data through hci_conn_valid(), conn->flags, and conn->iso_qos dereferences during async PA sync work and error callbacks.\nI:H - Freed hci_conn is written via set_bit/clear_bit on conn->flags and error-path hci_connect_cfm()/hci_conn_add_unset in create_pa_complete; heap grooming of the reclaimed allocation enables arbitrary kernel writes and control-flow hijack.\nA:H - Dereferencing or deleting a freed hci_conn in hci_cmd_sync_work reliably causes kernel memory corruption, oops, or panic; UAFs in this subsystem have been observed to crash the host even when not fully exploited for privilege escalation."}]}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c"],"versions":[{"version":"6d0417e4e1cf66fd917f06f0454958362714ef7d","lessThan":"c53c70ec289ee12f20c4f1b2fbfd151762c01f67","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6d0417e4e1cf66fd917f06f0454958362714ef7d","lessThan":"44fc74069d8988f2825246f9401218e29de2c0ab","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"eb8b860e87b296bd1874c79a668081efd00f9754","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"94bf6380e936339a700c0b3171a49baf512aa70b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.12.28","lessThan":"6.13","status":"affected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.14.6","lessThan":"6.15","status":"affected","versionType":"semver"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c"],"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.1.8","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.2","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.15","versionEndExcluding":"7.1.8"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.15","versionEndExcluding":"7.2"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.12.28"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.14.6"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c53c70ec289ee12f20c4f1b2fbfd151762c01f67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44fc74069d8988f2825246f9401218e29de2c0ab"}],"title":"Bluetooth: hci_sync: hold conn in hci_connect_pa_sync() callback","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}