{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53762 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53762 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 8 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-53762 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53762 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 8 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53762 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53762/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53762/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53762","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53762/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53762","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-53762","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53762","GHSA-v6x6-vgmm-x298","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2023-53762","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53762"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel Bluetooth","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel Bluetooth subsystem allows attackers to cause a system crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_sync: Fix UAF in hci_disconnect_all_sync\n\nUse-after-free can occur in hci_disconnect_all_sync if a connection is\ndeleted by concurrent processing of a controller event.\n\nTo prevent this the code now tries to iterate over the list backwards\nto ensure the links are cleanup before its parents, also it no longer\nrelies on a cursor, instead it always uses the last element since\nhci_abort_conn_sync is guaranteed to call hci_conn_del.\n\nUAF crash log:\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hci_set_powered_sync\n(net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5424) [bluetooth]\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff888009d9c000 by task kworker/u9:0/124\n\nCPU: 0 PID: 124 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Tainted: G        W\n6.5.0-rc1+ #10\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS\n1.16.2-1.fc38 04/01/2014\nWorkqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work [bluetooth]\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x5b/0x90\n print_report+0xcf/0x670\n ? __virt_addr_valid+0xdd/0x160\n ? hci_set_powered_sync+0x2c9/0x4a0 [bluetooth]\n kasan_report+0xa6/0xe0\n ? hci_set_powered_sync+0x2c9/0x4a0 [bluetooth]\n ? __pfx_set_powered_sync+0x10/0x10 [bluetooth]\n hci_set_powered_sync+0x2c9/0x4a0 [bluetooth]\n ? __pfx_hci_set_powered_sync+0x10/0x10 [bluetooth]\n ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_set_powered_sync+0x10/0x10 [bluetooth]\n hci_cmd_sync_work+0x137/0x220 [bluetooth]\n process_one_work+0x526/0x9d0\n ? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_do_raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10\n ? mark_held_locks+0x1a/0x90\n worker_thread+0x92/0x630\n ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n kthread+0x196/0x1e0\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nAllocated by task 1782:\n kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60\n kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30\n __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0\n hci_conn_add+0xa5/0xa80 [bluetooth]\n hci_bind_cis+0x881/0x9b0 [bluetooth]\n iso_connect_cis+0x121/0x520 [bluetooth]\n iso_sock_connect+0x3f6/0x790 [bluetooth]\n __sys_connect+0x109/0x130\n __x64_sys_connect+0x40/0x50\n do_syscall_64+0x60/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n\nFreed by task 695:\n kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60\n kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30\n kasan_save_free_info+0x2b/0x50\n __kasan_slab_free+0x10a/0x180\n __kmem_cache_free+0x14d/0x2e0\n device_release+0x5d/0xf0\n kobject_put+0xdf/0x270\n hci_disconn_complete_evt+0x274/0x3a0 [bluetooth]\n hci_event_packet+0x579/0x7e0 [bluetooth]\n hci_rx_work+0x287/0xaa0 [bluetooth]\n process_one_work+0x526/0x9d0\n worker_thread+0x92/0x630\n kthread+0x196/0x1e0\n ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50\n==================================================================","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix UAF in hci_disconnect_all_sync","id":"CVE-2023-53762","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Revert \"f2fs: fix to do sanity check on extent cache correctly\"","id":"CVE-2023-53763"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"USB: usbtmc: Fix direction for 0-length ioctl control messages","id":"CVE-2023-53761"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-08","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-03","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel Bluetooth subsystem allows attackers to cause a system crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53762/"}