CVE-2026-53358: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: use chan timer to close channels in cleanup_listen() l2cap_chan_close() removes the channel from conn->chan_l, which must be done under conn->lock. cleanup_listen() runs under the parent sk_lock, so acquiring conn->lock would invert the established conn->lock -> chan->lock -> sk_lock order. Instead of calling l2cap_chan_close() directly, schedule l2cap_chan_timeout with delay 0 to close the channel asynchronously. The timeout handler already acquires conn->lock and chan->lock in the correct order. The timer is only armed when chan->conn is still set: if it is already NULL, l2cap_conn_del() has already processed this channel (l2cap_chan_del + l2cap_sock_teardown_cb + l2cap_sock_close_cb), so there is nothing left to do. If l2cap_conn_del() races in after the timer is armed, __clear_chan_timer() inside l2cap_chan_del() cancels it; if the timer has already fired, the handler returns harmlessly because chan->conn was cleared.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.4, before 5.10.259 (fixed in 5.10.259); from 5.11, before 5.15.210 (fixed in 5.15.210); from 5.16, before 6.1.176 (fixed in 6.1.176); from 6.2, before 6.6.143 (fixed in 6.6.143); from 6.7, before 6.12.93 (fixed in 6.12.93); from 6.13, before 6.18.35 (fixed in 6.18.35); …

Published 2026-07-02. Last modified 2026-07-22.