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Bluetooth: RFCOMM: serialize security confirmation handling

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: RFCOMM: serialize security confirmation handling rfcomm_security_cfm() looks up a session on session_list and then walks its DLC list without holding rfcomm_mutex. Since RFCOMM session teardown uses rfcomm_mutex, krfcommd can close and free the same session and DLCs concurrently: hci_rx_work krfcommd ----------- --------- rfcomm_session_get() rfcomm_lock() rfcomm_session_close() rfcomm_dlc_unlink() rfcomm_session_del() kfree(s) rfcomm_unlock() walk s->dlcs The callback can then read a freed session list head and touch freed DLCs while updating their flags or timers. Serialize the session lookup and DLC traversal in rfcomm_security_cfm() with rfcomm_mutex. This matches the existing RFCOMM session lifetime rules and prevents concurrent rfcomm_session_del() / rfcomm_dlc_unlink() from tearing the objects down while the callback is using them. KASAN reported: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rfcomm_security_cfm+0x41c/0x440 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888111fb3960 by task kworker/u17:1/89 Workqueue: hci0 hci_rx_work Call Trace: rfcomm_security_cfm+0x41c/0x440 hci_encrypt_cfm+0x139/0x590 hci_encrypt_change_evt+0x37b/0xc40 hci_event_packet+0x71b/0xb20 hci_rx_work+0x293/0x730 Allocated by task 69: rfcomm_session_add+0x9e/0x2f0 rfcomm_run+0x44b/0x41e0 Freed by task 69: kfree+0x131/0x3c0 rfcomm_session_del+0x188/0x220 rfcomm_run+0x1985/0x41e0

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CVE-2026-89569

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