CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2026-43069
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_ll: Fix firmware leak on error path
Smatch reports:
drivers/bluetooth/hci_ll.c:587 download_firmware() warn:
'fw' from request_firmware() not released on lines: 544.
In download_firmware(), if request_firmware() succeeds but the returned
firmware content is invalid (no data or zero size), the function returns
without releasing the firmware, resulting in a resource leak.
Fix this by calling release_firmware() before returning when
request_firmware() succeeded but the firmware content is invalid.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-401
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28904375d54b436a757641fb0331537778c0de5a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31148a7be723aa9f2e8fbd62424825ab8d577973
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5213ef54528dd1ac79b846e30d8f72ce092794aa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95e8601af227b2b4390eecf8db6abdb9f6a91f17
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ecbfd93cd6de6c78cb7fd51fe079e36c7ff074b