CVE-2023-53017 Information

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.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ed8b37cbaf14574c779064ef1372af62e8ba6aa https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ac6043bd3e5b58d30f50737aedc2e58e8087ad5