CVE-2023-31083

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 6.2

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210780
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9c33663af9ad115f90c076a1828129a3fbadea98
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+UBctC3p49aTgzbVgkSZ2+TQcqq4fPDO7yZitFT5uBPDeCO2g%40mail.gmail.com/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0003/
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210780
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9c33663af9ad115f90c076a1828129a3fbadea98
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00003.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+UBctC3p49aTgzbVgkSZ2+TQcqq4fPDO7yZitFT5uBPDeCO2g%40mail.gmail.com/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0003/

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