Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix dangling pointer on mgmt_add_adv_patterns_monitor_complete
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix dangling pointer on mgmt_add_adv_patterns_monitor_complete This fixes the condition checking so mgmt_pending_valid is executed whenever status != -ECANCELED otherwise calling mgmt_pending_free(cmd) would kfree(cmd) without unlinking it from the list first, leaving a dangling pointer. Any subsequent list traversal (e.g., mgmt_pending_foreach during __mgmt_power_off, or another mgmt_pending_valid call) would dereference freed memory.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
905 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix dangling pointer on mgmt_add_adv_patterns_monitor_complete This fixes the condition checking so mgmt_pending_valid is executed whenever status != -ECANCELED otherwise calling mgmt_pending_free(cmd) would kfree(cmd) without unlinking it from the list first, leaving a dangling pointer. Any subsequent list traversal (e.g., mgmt_pending_foreach during __mgmt_power_off, or another mgmt_pending_valid call) would dereference freed memory.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2074dfffad76981ca451cb7fc98703d04ac562fe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/340666172cf747de58c283d2eef1f335f050538b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a89c33deffb3cb7877a7ea2e50734cd12b064f2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f5fa4cd35f707344f65ce9e225b6528691dbbaa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bafec9325d4de26b6c49db75b5d5172de652aae0
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/31xxx/CVE-2026-31511.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31511