Bluetooth: btqcomsmd: destroy RPMsg endpoints before freeing hci_dev
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btqcomsmd: destroy RPMsg endpoints before freeing hci_dev The command and ACL RPMsg endpoints store struct btqcomsmd as their callback private data. The receive callbacks dereference btq->hdev without taking an hci_dev reference. The current teardown order frees the hci_dev before destroying the RPMsg endpoints in both the hci_register_dev() error path and the driver remove path. If WCNSS delivers data in that window, the endpoint callback can run with an already freed hci_dev and pass it to the Bluetooth core. For qcom_smd endpoints, rpmsg_destroy_ept() closes the channel and clears the callback under the channel recv_lock. The receive path holds the same lock while invoking the callback, so destroying the endpoints first both prevents new callbacks and serializes with any callback already running. Destroy the command and ACL endpoints before hci_free_dev(). Keep hci_unregister_dev() first during remove so the HCI core stops issuing operations before the transport endpoints are shut down. In the full registration-error cleanup path, return directly after freeing the hci_dev to avoid falling through to the partial-construction labels and destroying the endpoints twice.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.273, 5.15.224, 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.111, 6.18.53, 7.2.7, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-97908
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rm82-grpq-rh3c
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@aaa7f676418e1eb2c4ef0d4e4b07812b25e7b404 · CNA
- 2026-10-21 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected] +3 · CNA
- 2026-10-30 3 new references · CNA
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9b34cc149f8344d1cffbf318eb1c8cb414f74ac
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2a0d9401368ec29bd0cdbfe9545d2a800429875
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5e4f81f4e075cd5ec062f81b576b88cdee998d1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aaa7f676418e1eb2c4ef0d4e4b07812b25e7b404
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/962dcc1d8a52e64428cae07806e7f6b8d3ec6ac0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dcc2240b4e5f6e5dce1736f82666aba40eb3b13
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d016208a011558f211ec9687889df8318654730
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5a427b16e45210dee656b0860728f3d496dee85
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Sources
- CVE-2026-97908 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-97908 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-rm82-grpq-rh3c · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-97908 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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