CVE-2023-53017

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53017
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53017.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53017
Downstream
Published
2025-03-27T16:43:45.211Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:32:55.184282Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix memory leak in hci_update_adv_data()
Details

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

Bluetooth: hcisync: fix memory leak in hciupdateadvdata()

When hcicmdsyncqueue() failed in hciupdateadvdata(), instptr is not freed, which will cause memory leak, convert to use ERRPTR/PTR_ERR to pass the instance to callback so no memory needs to be allocated.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53017.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
651cd3d65b0f76a2198fcf3a80ce5d53dd267717
Fixed
8ac6043bd3e5b58d30f50737aedc2e58e8087ad5
Fixed
1ed8b37cbaf14574c779064ef1372af62e8ba6aa

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53017.json"