In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix UAF in hci_enhanced_setup_sync
This checks if the ACL connection remains valid as it could be destroyed
while hci_enhanced_setup_sync is pending on cmd_sync leading to the
following trace:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x91b/0xa60
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888002328ffd by task kworker/u5:2/37
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 37 Comm: kworker/u5:2 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-01300-g810be445d8d6 #7099
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-2.fc40 04/01/2014
Workqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80
? hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x91b/0xa60
print_report+0x152/0x4c0
? hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x91b/0xa60
? __virt_addr_valid+0x1fa/0x420
? hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x91b/0xa60
kasan_report+0xda/0x1b0
? hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x91b/0xa60
hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x91b/0xa60
? __pfx_hci_enhanced_setup_sync+0x10/0x10
? __pfx___mutex_lock+0x10/0x10
hci_cmd_sync_work+0x1c2/0x330
process_one_work+0x7d9/0x1360
? __pfx_lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10
? assign_work+0x167/0x240
worker_thread+0x5b7/0xf60
? __kthread_parkme+0xac/0x1c0
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0x293/0x360
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x70
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
Allocated by task 34:
kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
__hci_conn_add+0x187/0x17d0
hci_connect_sco+0x2e1/0xb90
sco_sock_connect+0x2a2/0xb80
__sys_connect+0x227/0x2a0
__x64_sys_connect+0x6d/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x71/0x140
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Freed by task 37:
kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x101/0x160
kfree+0xd0/0x250
device_release+0x9a/0x210
kobject_put+0x151/0x280
hci_conn_del+0x448/0xbf0
hci_abort_conn_sync+0x46f/0x980
hci_cmd_sync_work+0x1c2/0x330
process_one_work+0x7d9/0x1360
worker_thread+0x5b7/0xf60
kthread+0x293/0x360
ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (7.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-27). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it