CVE-2026-53276
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Bluetooth Use-After-Free in Linux Kernel
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-53276, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-06-25
Last updated on: 2026-07-08
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: ISO: Fix a use-after-free of the hci_conn pointer
In iso_sock_rebind_bc(), the bis pointer is cached, then the socket lock is
dropped:
bis = iso_pi(sk)->conn->hcon;
/* Release the socket before lookups since that requires hci_dev_lock
* which shall not be acquired while holding sock_lock for proper
* ordering.
*/
release_sock(sk);
hci_dev_lock(bis->hdev);
During the unlocked window, could a concurrent close() destroy the connection
and free the bis structure, causing hci_dev_lock(bis->hdev) to access memory
after it is freed, fix this by using the hdev reference which was safely
acquired via iso_conn_get_hdev().
CVSS Scores
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Meta Information
Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.19 (inc) to 7.0.13 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-416 | The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer. |