Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix memory leak in hci_le_big_terminate()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix memory leak in hci_le_big_terminate() hci_le_big_terminate() allocates iso_list_data via kzalloc_obj but returns 0 without freeing it when neither pa_sync_term nor big_sync_term flags are set after evaluating the PA and BIG sync connection state. This early-return path was introduced when hci_le_big_terminate() was refactored to take struct hci_conn instead of raw u8 parameters, adding PA/BIG flag evaluation logic. The existing kfree() on hci_cmd_sync_queue failure does not cover this path.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
878 explicit affected versions
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix memory leak in hci_le_big_terminate() hci_le_big_terminate() allocates iso_list_data via kzalloc_obj but returns 0 without freeing it when neither pa_sync_term nor big_sync_term flags are set after evaluating the PA and BIG sync connection state. This early-return path was introduced when hci_le_big_terminate() was refactored to take struct hci_conn instead of raw u8 parameters, adding PA/BIG flag evaluation logic. The existing kfree() on hci_cmd_sync_queue failure does not cover this path.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/488e808e3fa53200f3ef3324c45fcba4ae9f4972
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a59d4f4217e6200ca9180643e5738a87d3fa8be0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfa9d28960ed677d556bdf097073bc3129686229
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6b78019664dfe37c3dc707f50e7b453d6c7726d
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/53xxx/CVE-2026-53364.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53364