Security Advisory

CVE-2023-31083

4.7
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date April 24, 2023
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory