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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