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Debian: CVE-2023-53017: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2023-53017: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/27/2025
Created
04/01/2025
Added
03/31/2025
Modified
03/31/2025

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

References

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