CVE-2026-74537: Bluetooth: ISO: hold sk properly in iso_conn_ready

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-cve-announce
Message-ID <2026081548-CVE-2026-74537-7d32@gregkh>
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Description
===========

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

Bluetooth: ISO: hold sk properly in iso_conn_ready

sk deref in iso_conn_ready must be done either under conn->lock, or
holding a refcount, to avoid concurrent close. conn->sk is currently
accessed without either:

    [Task 1]            [Task 2]
                        iso_sock_release
    iso_conn_ready
      sk = conn->sk
                          lock_sock(sk)
                            conn->sk = NULL
      lock_sock(sk)
                          release_sock(sk)
                          iso_sock_kill(sk)
       UAF on sk deref

Fix possible UAF by holding sk refcount in iso_conn_ready().  Also
recheck after lock_sock that the socket is still valid.  Adjust locking
so conn->sk is cleared only under lock_sock.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-74537 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 27c24fda62b601d6f9ca5e992502578c4310876f and fixed in 6.18.44 with commit 4e9b5e8669b3602a4e01b6d1e9539b72e42c84d5
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 27c24fda62b601d6f9ca5e992502578c4310876f and fixed in 7.1.8 with commit 1308d72903d792d10b82bc4ef08b8a4452308b04
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 27c24fda62b601d6f9ca5e992502578c4310876f and fixed in 7.2-rc6 with commit 0d255e63fcf3f13a570d7ac11678fa1164ac015c

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-74537
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/bluetooth/iso.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e9b5e8669b3602a4e01b6d1e9539b72e42c84d5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1308d72903d792d10b82bc4ef08b8a4452308b04
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d255e63fcf3f13a570d7ac11678fa1164ac015c
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