# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53016"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-27T16:43:44.528Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:36:58.226Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53016"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53016.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53016"
title: "Bluetooth: Fix possible deadlock in rfcomm_sk_state_change"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: Fix possible deadlock in rfcomm_sk_state_change\n\nsyzbot reports a possible deadlock in rfcomm_sk_state_change [1].\nWhile rfcomm_sock_connect acquires the sk lock and waits for\nthe rfcomm lock, rfcomm_sock_release could have the rfcomm\nlock and hit a deadlock for acquiring the sk lock.\nHere's a simplified flow:\n\nrfcomm_sock_connect:\n  lock_sock(sk)\n  rfcomm_dlc_open:\n    rfcomm_lock()\n\nrfcomm_sock_release:\n  rfcomm_sock_shutdown:\n    rfcomm_lock()\n    __rfcomm_dlc_close:\n        rfcomm_k_state_change:\n\t  lock_sock(sk)\n\nThis patch drops the sk lock before calling rfcomm_dlc_open to\navoid the possible deadlock and holds sk's reference count to\nprevent use-after-free after rfcomm_dlc_open completes."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1804fdf6e494e5e2938c65d8391690b59bcff897","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"98aec50ff7f60cc6f2d6a4396b475c547e58b04d"},{"version":"1804fdf6e494e5e2938c65d8391690b59bcff897","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17511bd84871f4a6106cb335616e086880313f3f"},{"version":"1804fdf6e494e5e2938c65d8391690b59bcff897","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d80d57ffcb55488f0ec0b77928d4f82d16b6a90"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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