# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53017"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-27T16:43:45.211Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:36:59.383Z"
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-2023-53017"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53017.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53017"
title: "Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix memory leak in hci_update_adv_data()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_sync: fix memory leak in hci_update_adv_data()\n\nWhen hci_cmd_sync_queue() failed in hci_update_adv_data(), inst_ptr is\nnot freed, which will cause memory leak, convert to use ERR_PTR/PTR_ERR\nto pass the instance to callback so no memory needs to be allocated."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"651cd3d65b0f76a2198fcf3a80ce5d53dd267717","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ac6043bd3e5b58d30f50737aedc2e58e8087ad5"},{"version":"651cd3d65b0f76a2198fcf3a80ce5d53dd267717","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ed8b37cbaf14574c779064ef1372af62e8ba6aa"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"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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