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Red Hat: CVE-2023-53018: kernel: Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix memory leaks (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

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.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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