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CVE-2026-98458

Bluetooth: ISO: release unused CIS holds after channel attach PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: ISO: release unused CIS holds after channel attach hci_bind_cis() and hci_connect_cis() return one hci_conn hold for the ISO layer. A new channel association consumes that hold, which is eventually released by iso_conn_free(). There are two cases where iso_chan_add() does not create an association: it returns success when the socket is already attached to the same iso_conn, and it returns -EBUSY when another socket is attached. The hold returned for the current call is unused in both cases. This occurs when deferred setup calls iso_connect_cis() again for its existing socket, or when another socket attempts to reuse the CIS. Detect the idempotent case while the connection is locked and release the unused hold after iso_chan_add(). Also release it on -EBUSY. Do not drop it for other errors: a newly allocated iso_conn releases the transferred hold when its last temporary reference is put.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 69997d50ec574be816b4ee8f9cee52ebbd53f8bd before e0e8b70207eaf27aee0a05ec5bf2d1b6bcb004d1; affected 69997d50ec574be816b4ee8f9cee52ebbd53f8bd before ed4c026cc4094dfb7a329b9d8df0ddd0be1b2458; affected 69997d50ec574be816b4ee8f9cee52ebbd53f8bd before e5fcca51177f224604e3a8c926ffd5edbeb58b09; affected 69997d50ec574be816b4ee8f9cee52ebbd53f8bd before 0fcd4dad555c96e0bd3a1b8c569f989be85c7341
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.6; unaffected 0 before 6.6; unaffected 6.12.113 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.55 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.9 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

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