# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52518"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-02T21:54:47.826Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:28:51.101Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52518"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52518.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52518"
title: "Bluetooth: hci_codec: Fix leaking content of local_codecs"
summary: "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    [\u003cffffffffb324f557\u003e] __kmalloc+0x47/0x120\n    [\u003cffffffffb39ef37d\u003e] hci_codec_list_add.isra.0+0x2d/0x160\n    [\u003cffffffffb39ef643\u003e] hci_read_codec_capabilities+0x183/0x270\n    [\u003cffffffffb39ef9ab\u003e] hci_read_supported_codecs+0x1bb/0x2d0\n    [\u003cffffffffb39f162e\u003e] hci_read_local_codecs_sync+0x3e/0x60\n    [\u003cffffffffb39ff1b3\u003e] hci_dev_open_sync+0x943/0x11e0\n    [\u003cffffffffb396d55d\u003e] hci_power_on+0x10d/0x3f0\n    [\u003cffffffffb30c99b4\u003e] process_one_work+0x404/0x800\n    [\u003cffffffffb30ca134\u003e] worker_thread+0x374/0x670\n    [\u003cffffffffb30d9108\u003e] kthread+0x188/0x1c0\n    [\u003cffffffffb304db6b\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x2b/0x50\n    [\u003cffffffffb300206a\u003e] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"626535077ba9dc110787540d1fe24881094c15a1"},{"version":"8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eea5a8f0c3b7c884d2351e75fbdd0a3d7def5ae1"},{"version":"8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b938790e70540bf4f2e653dcd74b232494d06c8f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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