zephyrproject zephyr up to 4.4.x RFCOMM Service rfcomm.c rfcomm_handle_disc race condition

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in zephyrproject zephyr up to 4.4.x. Affected by this vulnerability is the function rfcomm_handle_disc of the file subsys/bluetooth/host/classic/rfcomm.c of the component RFCOMM Service. Executing a manipulation can lead to race condition. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-10654. The attack is only possible within the local network. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in zephyrproject zephyr up to 4.4.x. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function rfcomm_handle_disc of the file subsys/bluetooth/host/classic/rfcomm.c of the component RFCOMM Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

A race condition in the Zephyr Bluetooth Classic RFCOMM host stack (subsys/bluetooth/host/classic/rfcomm.c) mishandles a simultaneous bidirectional session disconnect. When the local device has initiated a session teardown (state BT_RFCOMM_STATE_DISCONNECTING, DISC sent, RTX timer armed) and the connected peer concurrently sends its own DISC frame for dlci 0, rfcomm_handle_disc() invokes rfcomm_session_disconnected(), which unconditionally forced the session to BT_RFCOMM_STATE_DISCONNECTED without ever calling bt_l2cap_chan_disconnect(). Because the recovery timer was also cancelled and a later UA is ignored in the DISCONNECTED state, the session becomes permanently wedged: the underlying L2CAP channel is never released and the session slot in the fixed bt_rfcomm_pool[CONFIG_BT_MAX_CONN] array is never reclaimed (its conn pointer stays set). Subsequent bt_rfcomm_dlc_connect() calls on that connection fail with -EINVAL due to the invalid session state, so RFCOMM service is denied for that peer, and repeated occurrences can exhaust the session pool. The DISC frame is peer-controlled over the air, but exploitation requires the peer's DISC to collide with a local-initiated disconnect (a high-complexity timing race). Impact is availability/resource-leak only; there is no memory-safety, confidentiality, or integrity consequence. The defect shipped in released versions (present in v4.4.0 and earlier). The fix only transitions to DISCONNECTED when the session is not already in DISCONNECTING, preserving the proper L2CAP teardown path.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-10654 since 06/02/2026. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack needs to be done within the local network. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 4.5.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch c67b59f891a3a8697f1edb2a0e559fc267e75cc2 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Project Management Software

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• zephyrproject

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• zephyr

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• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4

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• open-source

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