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  "schema_version": "1.6.1",
  "id": "RPI-CVE-2023-52518",
  "modified": "2026-10-07T17:22:01Z",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2023-52518"
  ],
  "published": "2024-03-02T21:54:57Z",
  "summary": "Bluetooth: hci_codec: Fix leaking content of local_codecs",
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_codec: Fix leaking content of local_codecs\n\nThe following memory leak can be observed when the controller supports\ncodecs which are stored in local_codecs list but the elements are never\nfreed:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88800221d840 (size 32):\n  comm \"kworker/u3:0\", pid 36, jiffies 4294898739 (age 127.060s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    f8 d3 02 03 80 88 ff ff 80 d8 21 02 80 88 ff ff  ..........!.....\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [<ffffffffb324f557>] __kmalloc+0x47/0x120\n    [<ffffffffb39ef37d>] hci_codec_list_add.isra.0+0x2d/0x160\n    [<ffffffffb39ef643>] hci_read_codec_capabilities+0x183/0x270\n    [<ffffffffb39ef9ab>] hci_read_supported_codecs+0x1bb/0x2d0\n    [<ffffffffb39f162e>] hci_read_local_codecs_sync+0x3e/0x60\n    [<ffffffffb39ff1b3>] hci_dev_open_sync+0x943/0x11e0\n    [<ffffffffb396d55d>] hci_power_on+0x10d/0x3f0\n    [<ffffffffb30c99b4>] process_one_work+0x404/0x800\n    [<ffffffffb30ca134>] worker_thread+0x374/0x670\n    [<ffffffffb30d9108>] kthread+0x188/0x1c0\n    [<ffffffffb304db6b>] ret_from_fork+0x2b/0x50\n    [<ffffffffb300206a>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30",
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    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52518"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/626535077ba9dc110787540d1fe24881094c15a1"
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