Race condition in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-53071
Published: June 25, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU135270
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-53071
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to corrupt kernel memory.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in l2cap_ecred_reconf_rsp in the L2CAP subsystem when processing a crafted L2CAP ECRED reconfiguration response from a remote BLE device. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted L2CAP ECRED reconfiguration response to corrupt kernel memory.
Exploitation requires concurrent channel list iteration by another thread.
How to mitigate CVE-2026-53071
Install security update from vendor's repository.
Sources
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ccd75c51f620374086f359e906917676e699a1c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/330b20ec97916961ee0e6c29c06bc0fa7c96e64c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42776497cdbc9a665b384a6dcb85f0d4bd927eab
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5501d055a1ce3c747141e3955ba8cf034d193f3e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77a853aec710b2fdf41fa298ea3cbc9a4358f917
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96dca51715d86559ed6ed8028e5445cecb80f3ae
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc89961b76f12aff47124c1df4bdb32a080f4d0c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe1188abdae9b7a8199dcdfcf9244d5e5d61eb14