CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-31408

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.30%

23th percentile - higher than 23% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the Bluetooth SCO subsystem has a use-after-free vulnerability in sco_recv_frame(). The function reads conn->sk under sco_conn_lock() but releases the lock without holding a socket reference, allowing a concurrent close() to free the socket before accessing sk->sk_state.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this to access freed memory, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or system crash.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that uses sco_sock_hold() and sock_put().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: SCO: Fix use-after-free in sco_recv_frame() due to missing sock_hold sco_recv_frame() reads conn->sk under sco_conn_lock() but immediately releases the lock without holding a reference to the socket. A concurrent close() can free the socket between the lock release and the subsequent sk->sk_state access, resulting in a use-after-free. Other functions in the same file (sco_sock_timeout(), sco_conn_del()) correctly use sco_sock_hold() to safely hold a reference under the lock. Fix by using sco_sock_hold() to take a reference before releasing the lock, and adding sock_put() on all exit paths.

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