CVE-2026-63948

Summary

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

Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix chan ref leak in l2cap_chan_timeout() on !conn

__set_chan_timer() takes a l2cap_chan reference via l2cap_chan_hold() before scheduling the delayed work. The normal path in l2cap_chan_timeout() drops this reference with l2cap_chan_put() at the end, but the early return when chan->conn is NULL skips the put, leaking the reference.

Add the missing l2cap_chan_put() before the early return.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux06acb75e7ed600d0bbf7bff5628aa8f24a97978c < 50f1bcaaaa3a80bb1c3472044bc146e8d49d51eeaffected
LinuxLinuxe97e16433eb4533083b096a3824b93a5ca3aee79 < b5c59a5b469e2a809a2d57eda4ded94235971060affected
LinuxLinux8960ff650aec70485b40771cd8e6e8c4cb467d33 < 8894c2010435a56ce7c6c2a8785860c13554df2faffected
LinuxLinux955b5b6c54d95b5e7444dfc81c95c8e013f27ac0 < 63cd225cc13d782a85e2a73c04d0d350153eada1affected
LinuxLinuxadf0398cee86643b8eacde95f17d073d022f782c < 107c826e4ef9ec5ad8f60e6fe64d8d5325ba508faffected
LinuxLinuxadf0398cee86643b8eacde95f17d073d022f782c < e8a5baff5be273ca07771fd2b9bb1f2a4152917baffected
LinuxLinuxadf0398cee86643b8eacde95f17d073d022f782c < 08d81fe96f80a8e20c7acb573b6a45d901fcf2cdaffected
LinuxLinuxadf0398cee86643b8eacde95f17d073d022f782c < 9dbd84990394c51f5cee1e8871bb5ff8af5ed939affected
LinuxLinuxe137e2ba96e51902dc2878131823a96bf8e638aeaffected
LinuxLinux6466ee65e5b27161c846c73ef407f49dfa1bd1d9affected
LinuxLinuxeb86f955488c39526534211f2610e48a5cf8ead4affected
LinuxLinux5.10.217 < 5.10.259affected
LinuxLinux5.15.159 < 5.15.210affected
LinuxLinux6.1.91 < 6.1.176affected
LinuxLinux6.6.31 < 6.6.143affected
LinuxLinux4.19.314 < 4.20affected
LinuxLinux5.4.276 < 5.5affected
LinuxLinux6.8.10 < 6.9affected
LinuxLinux6.9affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.9unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.259 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.210 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.176 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.143 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.93 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.35 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0.12 <= 7.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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