CVE-2023-31083 (GCVE-0-2023-31083)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-24 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An issue was discovered in drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c in the Linux kernel 6.2. In hci_uart_tty_ioctl, there is a race condition between HCIUARTSETPROTO and HCIUARTGETPROTO. HCI_UART_PROTO_SET is set before hu->proto is set. A NULL pointer dereference may occur.
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
6 references
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