Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 12, 2021· Updated Nov 4, 2025
Memory leak in BlueZ
CVE-2021-41229
Description
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.
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