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medium 5.5

CVE-2024-26959 json

Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Fix btnxpuart_close

published 2024-05-01 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-24221

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 12%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Fix btnxpuart_close

Fix scheduling while atomic BUG in btnxpuart_close(), properly purge the transmit queue and free the receive skb.

[ 10.973809] BUG: scheduling while atomic: kworker/u9:0/80/0x00000002 ... [ 10.980740] CPU: 3 PID: 80 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7-0.0.0-devel-00005-g61fdfceacf09 #1 [ 10.980751] Hardware name: Toradex Verdin AM62 WB on Dahlia Board (DT) [ 10.980760] Workqueue: hci0 hci_power_off [bluetooth] [ 10.981169] Call trace: ... [ 10.981363] uart_update_mctrl+0x58/0x78 [ 10.981373] uart_dtr_rts+0x104/0x114 [ 10.981381] tty_port_shutdown+0xd4/0xdc [ 10.981396] tty_port_close+0x40/0xbc [ 10.981407] uart_close+0x34/0x9c [ 10.981414] ttyport_close+0x50/0x94 [ 10.981430] serdev_device_close+0x40/0x50 [ 10.981442] btnxpuart_close+0x24/0x98 [btnxpuart] [ 10.981469] hci_dev_close_sync+0x2d8/0x718 [bluetooth] [ 10.981728] hci_dev_do_close+0x2c/0x70 [bluetooth] [ 10.981862] hci_power_off+0x20/0x64 [bluetooth]

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.6.24, 6.7.12, 6.8.3, 6.9
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.7.12-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26959

  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-35.35
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1009.9
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1008.9
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1004.7
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1006.6
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1008.8
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1005.5
  • linux-riscv Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-35.35.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26959

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-9.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-9.1
  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-18.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-18.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-18.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-17.1.1.51

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20028-1SUSE-SU-2025:20008-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-26959 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Fix btnxpuart_close

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

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References

Sources

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