CVE-2023-53017

Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix memory leak in hci_update_adv_data()

Medium · published March 27, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00162 · 5.0th percentile
Published
2025-03-27T16:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAR 16:43Z
    Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix memory leak in hci_update_adv_data()
    cvelistv5