CVE-2023-53386 (GCVE-0-2023-53386)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-18 13:33
Modified
2026-08-05 09:13
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: Fix potential use-after-free when clear keys Similar to commit c5d2b6fa26b5 ("Bluetooth: Fix use-after-free in hci_remove_ltk/hci_remove_irk"). We can not access k after kfree_rcu() call.
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Linux Linux Version: d7d41682efc25d58b5bd8b80e85e3c9ce586635c
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