CVE-2026-64434: Software Security Vulnerability Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-9wm7-g2v6-vprf",
  "modified" : "2026-08-19T18:32:01Z",
  "published" : "2026-07-25T12:31:35Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2026-64434" ],
  "details" : "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: L2CAP: Fix UAF in channel timeout by holding conn ref\n\nl2cap_chan_timeout() runs asynchronously and accesses chan->conn. If\nthe connection is torn down while the timer is running or pending,\nchan->conn can be freed, leading to a use-after-free when the timer\nworker attempts to lock conn->lock:\n\n| BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]\n| BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_long_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:4456 [inline]\n| BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __mutex_trylock_fast kernel/locking/mutex.c:161 [inline]\n| BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mutex_lock+0x4f/0xa0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:318\n| Write of size 8 at addr ffff8881298d9550 by task kworker/2:1/83\n|\n| CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 83 Comm: kworker/2:1 Not tainted 7.1.0-rc6-next-20260601-dirty #6 PREEMPT(full)\n| Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014\n| Workqueue: events l2cap_chan_timeout\n| Call Trace:\n|  <TASK>\n|  instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]\n|  atomic_long_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:4456 [inline]\n|  __mutex_trylock_fast kernel/locking/mutex.c:161 [inline]\n|  mutex_lock+0x4f/0xa0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:318\n|  l2cap_chan_timeout+0x5d/0x1b0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:422\n|  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3326 [inline]\n|  process_scheduled_works+0x7c8/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3409\n|  worker_thread+0x8a9/0xcf0 kernel/workqueue.c:3490\n|  kthread+0x346/0x430 kernel/kthread.c:436\n|  ret_from_fork+0x1a3/0x470 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158\n|  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245\n|  </TASK>\n|\n| Allocated by task 320:\n|  l2cap_conn_add+0xa7/0x820 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7075\n|  l2cap_connect_cfm+0xdb/0xd70 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7452\n|  hci_connect_cfm include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:2139 [inline]\n|  hci_remote_features_evt+0x52f/0x9f0 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:3760\n|  hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7796 [inline]\n|  hci_event_packet+0x561/0xa70 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7847\n|  hci_rx_work+0x370/0x890 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4040\n|  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3326 [inline]\n|  process_scheduled_works+0x7c8/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3409\n|  worker_thread+0x8a9/0xcf0 kernel/workqueue.c:3490\n|  kthread+0x346/0x430 kernel/kthread.c:436\n|  ret_from_fork+0x1a3/0x470 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158\n|  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245\n|\n| Freed by task 322:\n|  hci_disconn_cfm include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:2154 [inline]\n|  hci_conn_hash_flush+0x101/0x1f0 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:2736\n|  hci_dev_close_sync+0x889/0xde0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5405\n|  hci_dev_do_close net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:502 [inline]\n|  hci_unregister_dev+0x1f7/0x370 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:2679\n|  vhci_release+0x12a/0x180 drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:690\n|  __fput+0x369/0x890 fs/file_table.c:510\n|  task_work_run+0x160/0x1d0 kernel/task_work.c:233\n|  get_signal+0xf5b/0x1120 kernel/signal.c:2810\n|  arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x4d/0x600 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337\n|  __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]\n|  exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x85/0x510 kernel/entry/common.c:98\n|  do_syscall_64+0x263/0x3d0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100\n|  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n|\n| The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881298d9400\n|  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512\n| The buggy address is located 336 bytes inside of\n|  freed 512-byte region [ffff8881298d9400, ffff8881298d9600)\n\nFix it by having chan->conn hold a reference to l2cap_conn (via\nl2cap_conn_get) when the channel is added to the connection, and\nreleasing it in the channel destructor. This ensures the l2cap_conn\nremains alive as long as the channel exists.\n\nA new FLAG_DEL channel flag is introduced to indicate that the ch\n---truncated---",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64434"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b0e2bf39cf99e458d991b9df253727e036a7d7d"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32d783cafb46ff3ca58e6f9fd62c9c5f35eaf26b"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50c38d9f42a529691e4e67ea9cedf4f0bfc8d277"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8922c7940bae9ce4b1736dddb6362370793835c2"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f90405a4a6f1f1880dc07996b47bf57c712bd8a"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91047a4396a8b1857a6f712a90cf33ec0012b189"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b66774b48dd98f07254951f74ea6f513efe7ff8b"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3b739db5dc6f688a60d56da872fabaf65246032"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-416" ],
    "severity" : "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed" : false,
    "github_reviewed_at" : null,
    "nvd_published_at" : "2026-07-25T10:17:27Z"
  }
}