# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53252"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:43.951Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:43.951Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53252"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53252.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53252"
title: "Bluetooth: fix memory leak in error path of hci_alloc_dev()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: fix memory leak in error path of hci_alloc_dev()\n\nEarly failures in Bluetooth HCI UART configuration leak SRCU percpu\nmemory.\n\nWhen device initialization fails before hci_register_dev() completes,\nthe HCI_UNREGISTER flag is never set. As a result, when the device\nreference count reaches zero, bt_host_release() evaluates this flag as\nfalse and falls back to a direct kfree(hdev).\n\nBecause hci_release_dev() is bypassed, the SRCU struct initialized\nearly in hci_alloc_dev() is never cleaned up, resulting in a leak of\npercpu memory.\n\nFix the leak by explicitly calling cleanup_srcu_struct() in the\nfallback (unregistered) branch of bt_host_release() before freeing\nthe device."
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