# Bluetooth: ISO: balance the parent hold in hci_bind_bis()

CVE record · `CVE-2026-98459`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-98459`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** No CVSS score
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Linux
- **Technologies:** [Linux kernel](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/linux-kernel.md)
- **Published:** 18 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 19 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:15 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `11dc486ed5d4626e6b92a23b67ed76cb6c48bfc9 to before ff28e6c67143c76ef50c3eac01f2fad411705f71` (git)
  - affected: `fa224d0c094a458e9ebf5ea9b1c696136b7af427 to before 03a91cdf6862fb351a74f035ad21e70112438552` (git)
  - affected: `fa224d0c094a458e9ebf5ea9b1c696136b7af427 to before 4e49206d9574a4c109480198e73aea34ad0ed7f6` (git)
  - affected: `fa224d0c094a458e9ebf5ea9b1c696136b7af427 to before bbcd723ee7a84bc868142fd57717af88e54e555a` (git)
  - affected: `fa224d0c094a458e9ebf5ea9b1c696136b7af427 to before 4c94557dd02569efa6c1072a0439addaef9a5224` (git)
  - affected: `6.6.67 to before 6.6.158` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `6.8`
  - unaffected: `before 6.8` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.18.55 to 6.18.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `7.2.9 to 7.2.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `7.3 to *, inclusive` (original_commit_for_fix)
  - Other versions: affected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 18 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-98459](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98459)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-98459](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98459)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff28e6c67143c76ef50c3eac01f2fad411705f71>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03a91cdf6862fb351a74f035ad21e70112438552>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e49206d9574a4c109480198e73aea34ad0ed7f6>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbcd723ee7a84bc868142fd57717af88e54e555a>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c94557dd02569efa6c1072a0439addaef9a5224>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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