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

Bluetooth: MGMT: free the mesh send cancel command when it is cancelled

mesh_send_cancel() queues the pending command with a NULL destroy
callback, so it is only freed if send_cancel() runs. A cancelled entry is
leaked, as _hci_cmd_sync_cancel_entry() does not release entry->data when
there is no destroy callback, and hci_cmd_sync_clear() cancels every
pending entry when the controller is unregistered. Nothing else reclaims
it either: mgmt_pending_new() does not put the command on
hdev->mgmt_pending.

The leak also pins the socket reference taken by mgmt_pending_new(), so
the mgmt socket is never released.

Free the command from a destroy callback.

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: MGMT: free the mesh send cancel command when it is cancelled mesh_send_cancel() queues the pending command with a NULL destroy callback, so it is only freed if send_cancel() runs. A cancelled entry is leaked, as _hci_cmd_sync_cancel_entry() does not release entry->data when there is no destroy callback, and hci_cmd_sync_clear() cancels every pending entry when the controller is unregistered. Nothing else reclaims it either: mgmt_pending_new() does not put the command on hdev->mgmt_pending. The leak also pins the socket reference taken by mgmt_pending_new(), so the mgmt socket is never released. Free the command from a destroy callback.
Title Bluetooth: MGMT: free the mesh send cancel command when it is cancelled
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-17T16:07:53.435Z

Reserved: 2026-09-11T19:38:34.796Z

Link: CVE-2026-90253

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-17T17:17:21.607

Modified: 2026-09-17T17:17:21.607

Link: CVE-2026-90253

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