VYPR
Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-53017

CVE-2023-53017

Description

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.

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