Linux Kernel up to 6.1.56/6.5.6 Bluetooth memory leak

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.56/6.5.6. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Bluetooth. This manipulation causes memory leak. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2023-52518. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.1.56/6.5.6 (Operating System). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Bluetooth. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory leak vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-401. The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

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: [] __kmalloc+0x47/0x120 [] hci_codec_list_add.isra.0+0x2d/0x160 [] hci_read_codec_capabilities+0x183/0x270 [] hci_read_supported_codecs+0x1bb/0x2d0 [] hci_read_local_codecs_sync+0x3e/0x60 [] hci_dev_open_sync+0x943/0x11e0 [] hci_power_on+0x10d/0x3f0 [] process_one_work+0x404/0x800 [] worker_thread+0x374/0x670 [] kthread+0x188/0x1c0 [] ret_from_fork+0x2b/0x50 [] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

The weakness was presented 03/02/2024. The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-52518 since 02/20/2024. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 6.1.57, 6.5.7 or 6.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 626535077ba9/eea5a8f0c3b7/b938790e7054 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.1.7
• 6.1.8
• 6.1.9
• 6.1.10
• 6.1.11
• 6.1.12
• 6.1.13
• 6.1.14
• 6.1.15
• 6.1.16
• 6.1.17
• 6.1.18
• 6.1.19
• 6.1.20
• 6.1.21
• 6.1.22
• 6.1.23
• 6.1.24
• 6.1.25
• 6.1.26
• 6.1.27
• 6.1.28
• 6.1.29
• 6.1.30
• 6.1.31
• 6.1.32
• 6.1.33
• 6.1.34
• 6.1.35
• 6.1.36
• 6.1.37
• 6.1.38
• 6.1.39
• 6.1.40
• 6.1.41
• 6.1.42
• 6.1.43
• 6.1.44
• 6.1.45
• 6.1.46
• 6.1.47
• 6.1.48
• 6.1.49
• 6.1.50
• 6.1.51
• 6.1.52
• 6.1.53
• 6.1.54
• 6.1.55
• 6.1.56
• 6.5.0
• 6.5.1
• 6.5.2
• 6.5.3
• 6.5.4
• 6.5.5
• 6.5.6

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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