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Severity
3.1
Race Condition
AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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 BTRFCOMMSTATEDISCONNECTING, DISC sent, RTX timer armed) and the connected peer concurrently sends its own DISC frame for dlci 0, rfcommhandledisc() invokes rfcommsessiondisconnected(), which unconditionally forced the session to BTRFCOMMSTATEDISCONNECTED without ever calling btl2capchandisconnect().

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 btrfcommpool[CONFIGBTMAXCONN] array is never reclaimed (its conn pointer stays set).

Subsequent btrfcommdlcconnect() 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.

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