# 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-2026-43069"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-05T15:23:28.120Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:17:07.130Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
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-2026-43069"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43069.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43069"
title: "Bluetooth: hci_ll: Fix firmware leak on error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_ll: Fix firmware leak on error path\n\nSmatch reports:\n\ndrivers/bluetooth/hci_ll.c:587 download_firmware() warn:\n'fw' from request_firmware() not released on lines: 544.\n\nIn download_firmware(), if request_firmware() succeeds but the returned\nfirmware content is invalid (no data or zero size), the function returns\nwithout releasing the firmware, resulting in a resource leak.\n\nFix this by calling release_firmware() before returning when\nrequest_firmware() succeeded but the firmware content is invalid."
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