CVE-2023-53018 Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix memory leaks

What is CVE-2023-53018?

CVE-2023-53018 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53018?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-53018?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-53018 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53018 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-53018, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53018, GHSA-4997-qrqv-f5m7, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53018.