CVE-2022-26878

medium

Description

drivers/bluetooth/virtio_bt.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.3 has a memory leak (socket buffers have memory allocated but not freed).

References

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bluetooth/1A203F5E-FB5E-430C-BEA3-86B191D69D58%40holtmann.org/

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1d0688421449718c6c5f46e458a378c9b530ba18

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.16.3

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.17

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/03/11/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-03-11

Updated: 2025-05-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00016