CVE-2023-53018 (GCVE-0-2023-53018)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-27 16:43
Modified
2026-05-11 19:37
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix memory leaks
When hci_cmd_sync_queue() failed in hci_le_terminate_big() or
hci_le_big_terminate(), the memory pointed by variable d is not freed,
which will cause memory leak. Add release process to error path.
References
Impacted products
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