CVE-2026-90254

CVE-2026-90254

published September 17, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_sync: free the advertising instance on the failure and cancel paths

adv_timeout_expire() hands a kmalloc()ed instance byte to

hci_cmd_sync_queue() with a NULL destroy callback, and only

adv_timeout_expire_sync() frees it. That leaks on two paths:

- the return value is not checked, and hci_cmd_sync_queue() does not

take ownership when it fails (-ENETDOWN, -ENODEV, -ENOMEM);

- a cancelled entry is not released, as _hci_cmd_sync_cancel_entry()

does not free entry->data when there is no destroy callback.

hci_cmd_sync_clear() cancels every pending entry when the controller

is unregistered.

Free the buffer from a destroy callback, and in the caller when the entry

could not be queued at all.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00206 · 10.1th percentile
Published
2026-09-17T21:17Z
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 SEP 03:55Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 17 SEP 16:07Z
    Bluetooth: hci_sync: free the advertising instance on the failure and cancel paths
    cvelistv5