{"cve":"CVE-2026-99008","nvd":{"published":"2026-10-23T13:17:23.290","modified":"2026-10-23T13:17:23.290","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: RFCOMM: Fix NULL tty_dev dereference in rfcomm_dev_shutdown\n\nsyzbot hit a NULL pointer dereference in rfcomm_dev_shutdown() when an\nRFCOMM tty is closed.\n\nrfcomm_dev_add() puts the new device on rfcomm_dev_list first and only\nthen registers the tty device and saves it in dev->tty_dev. If that\nregistration fails, dev->tty_dev is never set at all. The device can be\nlooked up in the meantime, so an open() of /dev/rfcommN gets through\nrfcomm_tty_install() and attaches to it. When that tty is closed again,\nrfcomm_dev_shutdown() uses dev->tty_dev without checking it:\n\n  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000040-0x0000000000000047]\n  RIP: 0010:rfcomm_dev_shutdown+0x48/0xb0 net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c:131\n  Call Trace:\n   tty_port_shutdown+0x1bf/0x220 drivers/tty/tty_port.c:372\n   tty_port_close+0x4e/0x150 drivers/tty/tty_port.c:705\n   tty_release+0x359/0x1670 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1718\n   __fput+0x418/0xa50 fs/file_table.c:512\n\nrfcomm_dev_destruct() already copes with a NULL dev->tty_dev. Add the\nsame check to rfcomm_dev_shutdown(), so the tty device is only moved\nwhen it was actually registered.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08e90633377f1b2567ab5ad6810b74c552246a07","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fd5164bdb04635caa7942ddb554b0ec699a9433","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a661f401f83b8462f2d424e0a1a72b7681e92ea2","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0aef0b0374678153244f162df507106d728af39","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5c372ad03330f02962d4860df4d355ab25487df"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-23T16:39:28.036610720+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-99008","score":0.00168,"percentile":0.06158,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}