Bug 2451276 (CVE-2026-23330)

Summary: CVE-2026-23330 kernel: nfc: nci: complete pending data exchange on device close
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Near Field Communication (NFC) Controller Interface (NCI) subsystem. When an NFC device is closed, the `nci_close_device()` function may not properly complete pending data exchanges. This can lead to a resource leak, where unreferenced socket objects consume system memory. Over time, this resource exhaustion could result in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the system.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-03-25 11:08:24 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfc: nci: complete pending data exchange on device close

In nci_close_device(), complete any pending data exchange before
closing. The data exchange callback (e.g.
rawsock_data_exchange_complete) holds a socket reference.

NIPA occasionally hits this leak:

unreferenced object 0xff1100000f435000 (size 2048):
  comm "nci_dev", pid 3954, jiffies 4295441245
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    27 00 01 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  '..@............
  backtrace (crc ec2b3c5):
    __kmalloc_noprof+0x4db/0x730
    sk_prot_alloc.isra.0+0xe4/0x1d0
    sk_alloc+0x36/0x760
    rawsock_create+0xd1/0x540
    nfc_sock_create+0x11f/0x280
    __sock_create+0x22d/0x630
    __sys_socket+0x115/0x1d0
    __x64_sys_socket+0x72/0xd0
    do_syscall_64+0x117/0xfc0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53