{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23146 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-23146 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 14 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-23146 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-23146 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 14 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-23146 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23146/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23146/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-23146","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23146/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-23146","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-23146","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23146","GHSA-hcr8-x92w-q652","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-23146","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-23146","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23146"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel Bluetooth","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel Bluetooth driver causes a null pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"},{"id":"CWE-362","name":"Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_uart: fix null-ptr-deref in hci_uart_write_work\n\nhci_uart_set_proto() sets HCI_UART_PROTO_INIT before calling\nhci_uart_register_dev(), which calls proto-\u003eopen() to initialize\nhu-\u003epriv. However, if a TTY write wakeup occurs during this window,\nhci_uart_tx_wakeup() may schedule write_work before hu-\u003epriv is\ninitialized, leading to a NULL pointer dereference in\nhci_uart_write_work() when proto-\u003edequeue() accesses hu-\u003epriv.\n\nThe race condition is:\n\n  CPU0                              CPU1\n  ----                              ----\n  hci_uart_set_proto()\n    set_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_INIT)\n    hci_uart_register_dev()\n                                    tty write wakeup\n                                      hci_uart_tty_wakeup()\n                                        hci_uart_tx_wakeup()\n                                          schedule_work(\u0026hu-\u003ewrite_work)\n      proto-\u003eopen(hu)\n        // initializes hu-\u003epriv\n                                    hci_uart_write_work()\n                                      hci_uart_dequeue()\n                                        proto-\u003edequeue(hu)\n                                          // accesses hu-\u003epriv (NULL!)\n\nFix this by moving set_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_INIT) after proto-\u003eopen()\nsucceeds, ensuring hu-\u003epriv is initialized before any work can be\nscheduled.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Bluetooth: hci_uart: fix null-ptr-deref in hci_uart_write_work","id":"CVE-2026-23146","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"btrfs: zlib: fix the folio leak on S390 hardware acceleration","id":"CVE-2026-23147"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ext4: fix iloc.bh leak in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref","id":"CVE-2026-23145"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-02-14","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel Bluetooth driver causes a null pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-23146/"}