CVE-2021-41229 (GCVE-0-2021-41229)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-12 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:09
VLAI
Title
Memory leak in BlueZ
Summary
BlueZ is a Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux. In affected versions a vulnerability exists in sdp_cstate_alloc_buf which allocates memory which will always be hung in the singly linked list of cstates and will not be freed. This will cause a memory leak over time. The data can be a very large object, which can be caused by an attacker continuously sending sdp packets and this may cause the service of the target device to crash.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
bluez bluez Affected: = 5.58
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