vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-3564: CVE-2021-3564 kernel: double free in bluetooth subsystem when the HCI device initialization fails (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 8, 2021
Added
Nov 10, 2021
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

A flaw double-free memory corruption in the Linux kernel HCI device initialization subsystem was found in the way user attach malicious HCI TTY Bluetooth device. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system. This flaw affects all the Linux kernel versions starting from 3.13.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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