{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54038 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-54038 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 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-2023-54038 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-54038 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 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-2023-54038 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-2023-54038/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54038/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-54038","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54038/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-54038","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-54038","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54038","GHSA-j568-pqpx-g2wf","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54038"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel Bluetooth","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel Bluetooth subsystem allows local attackers to cause a system crash via crafted Bluetooth connections.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_conn: return ERR_PTR instead of NULL when there is no link\n\nhci_connect_sco currently returns NULL when there is no link (i.e. when\nhci_conn_link() returns NULL).\n\nsco_connect() expects an ERR_PTR in case of any error (see line 266 in\nsco.c). Thus, hcon set as NULL passes through to sco_conn_add(), which\ntries to get hcon-\u003ehdev, resulting in dereferencing a NULL pointer as\nreported by syzkaller.\n\nThe same issue exists for iso_connect_cis() calling hci_connect_cis().\n\nThus, make hci_connect_sco() and hci_connect_cis() return ERR_PTR\ninstead of NULL.","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_conn: return ERR_PTR instead of NULL when there is no link","id":"CVE-2023-54038","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"can: j1939: j1939_tp_tx_dat_new(): fix out-of-bounds memory access","id":"CVE-2023-54039"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ice: prevent NULL pointer deref during reload","id":"CVE-2023-54037"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-24","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-23","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel Bluetooth subsystem allows local attackers to cause a system crash via crafted Bluetooth connections.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54038/"}