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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2023-53017

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix memory leak in hci_update_adv_data()

When hci_cmd_sync_queue() failed in hci_update_adv_data(), inst_ptr is not freed, which will cause memory leak, convert to use ERR_PTR/PTR_ERR to pass the instance to callback so no memory needs to be allocated.

  • Published: Mar 27, 2025
  • Updated: May 4, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2023-53017
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel 6.2-rc1 6.2-rc1.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.2-rc2 6.2-rc2.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.2-rc3 6.2-rc3.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.2-rc4 6.2-rc4.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.0 6.1.9