# CVE-2024-35856: Bluetooth: btusb: mediatek: Fix double free of skb in coredump

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-05-17 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btusb: mediatek: Fix double free of skb in coredump hci_devcd_append() would free the skb on error so the caller don't have to free it again otherwise it would cause the double free of skb. Reported-by : Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80dfef128cb9f1b1ef67c0fe8c8deb4ea7ad30c1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e20093c741d8da9f6390dd45d75b779861547035
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18bdb386a1a30e7a3d7732a98e45e69cf6b5710d

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