CVE-2026-98739

Status: ReceivedUnscored—
Severity—Unscored
Exploitation probability0.17 %higher than 6% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

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

Bluetooth: RFCOMM: Fix initial port reference race

For RFCOMM_RELEASE_ONHUP devices, rfcomm_tty_install() and __rfcomm_release_dev() both use RFCOMM_TTY_OWNED to decide who drops the initial tty_port reference. The release path tests the bit separately from the install path setting it, so both can drop that reference.

The synchronous hangup does not prevent this race: port->tty is not assigned until tty_port_open(), after installation. The following interleaving is possible:

Use test_and_set_bit() in both paths so that only the caller that changes RFCOMM_TTY_OWNED from clear to set drops the initial reference.

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Each path keeps its own lookup reference until release or TTY cleanup, preserving the existing callback ordering and error handling.

Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report
  1. Install and release each obtain a reference with rfcomm_dev_get().
  2. Release observes RFCOMM_TTY_OWNED clear.
  3. Install sets RFCOMM_TTY_OWNED and drops the initial reference.
  4. Release drops the same initial reference again.
  5. TTY cleanup drops its reference and frees the device.
  6. Release performs its final tty_port_put() on the freed port.

KASAN reported:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tty_port_put+0x22/0x190
  Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881001d3d5c by task poc/92

  Call Trace:
   tty_port_put+0x22/0x190
   rfcomm_dev_ioctl+0x1d4/0x1930
   sock_do_ioctl+0x110/0x260
   sock_ioctl+0x380/0x590
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1c0

  Allocated by task 88:
   rfcomm_dev_ioctl+0x8f6/0x1930
   sock_do_ioctl+0x110/0x260
   sock_ioctl+0x380/0x590
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1c0

  Freed by task 65:
   kfree+0x131/0x3c0
   rfcomm_dev_destruct+0x23b/0x2f0
   release_one_tty+0xc1/0x370
   process_one_work+0x661/0x1090

CVSS

NVD hasn't assigned a CVSS score to this CVE (common since the April 2026 policy change).

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.17 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
6
Score date
10/20/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.

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