CVE-2022-26878: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

drivers/bluetooth/virtio_bt.c in the Linux kernel before 5.16.3 has a memory leak (socket buffers have memory allocated but not freed).

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.13, before 5.15.17 (fixed in 5.15.17); from 5.16, before 5.16.3 (fixed in 5.16.3)

Published 2022-03-11. Last modified 2026-10-08.