CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-52518
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-03-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_codec: Fix leaking content of local_codecs
The following memory leak can be observed when the controller supports
codecs which are stored in local_codecs list but the elements are never
freed:
unreferenced object 0xffff88800221d840 (size 32):
comm "kworker/u3:0", pid 36, jiffies 4294898739 (age 127.060s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
f8 d3 02 03 80 88 ff ff 80 d8 21 02 80 88 ff ff ..........!.....
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffffb324f557>] __kmalloc+0x47/0x120
[<ffffffffb39ef37d>] hci_codec_list_add.isra.0+0x2d/0x160
[<ffffffffb39ef643>] hci_read_codec_capabilities+0x183/0x270
[<ffffffffb39ef9ab>] hci_read_supported_codecs+0x1bb/0x2d0
[<ffffffffb39f162e>] hci_read_local_codecs_sync+0x3e/0x60
[<ffffffffb39ff1b3>] hci_dev_open_sync+0x943/0x11e0
[<ffffffffb396d55d>] hci_power_on+0x10d/0x3f0
[<ffffffffb30c99b4>] process_one_work+0x404/0x800
[<ffffffffb30ca134>] worker_thread+0x374/0x670
[<ffffffffb30d9108>] kthread+0x188/0x1c0
[<ffffffffb304db6b>] ret_from_fork+0x2b/0x50
[<ffffffffb300206a>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.57)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.5.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.6
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/626535077ba9dc110787540d1fe24881094c15a1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b938790e70540bf4f2e653dcd74b232494d06c8f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eea5a8f0c3b7c884d2351e75fbdd0a3d7def5ae1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/626535077ba9dc110787540d1fe24881094c15a1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b938790e70540bf4f2e653dcd74b232494d06c8f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eea5a8f0c3b7c884d2351e75fbdd0a3d7def5ae1 Patch