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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2025-03-27

Last modified

2026-05-11

Weaknesses

CWE-401

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ed8b37cbaf14574c779064ef1372af62e8ba6aa
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ac6043bd3e5b58d30f50737aedc2e58e8087ad5