# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53520"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:46:07.355Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:29.915Z"
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-2023-53520"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53520.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53520"
title: "Bluetooth: Fix hci_suspend_sync crash"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: Fix hci_suspend_sync crash\n\nIf hci_unregister_dev() frees the hci_dev object but hci_suspend_notifier\nmay still be accessing it, it can cause the program to crash.\nHere's the call trace:\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653246] Call Trace:\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653254]  hci_suspend_sync+0x109/0x301 [bluetooth]\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653259]  hci_suspend_dev+0x78/0xcd [bluetooth]\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653263]  hci_suspend_notifier+0x42/0x7a [bluetooth]\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653268]  notifier_call_chain+0x43/0x6b\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653271]  __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x48/0x69\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653273]  __pm_notifier_call_chain+0x22/0x39\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653276]  pm_suspend+0x287/0x57c\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653278]  state_store+0xae/0xe5\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653281]  kernfs_fop_write+0x109/0x173\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653284]  __vfs_write+0x16f/0x1a2\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653287]  ? selinux_file_permission+0xca/0x16f\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653289]  ? security_file_permission+0x36/0x109\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653291]  vfs_write+0x114/0x21d\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653293]  __x64_sys_write+0x7b/0xdb\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653296]  do_syscall_64+0x59/0x194\n  \u003c4\u003e[102152.653299]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x5c/0xc1\n\nThis patch holds the reference count of the hci_dev object while\nprocessing it in hci_suspend_notifier to avoid potential crash\ncaused by the race condition."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9952d90ea2885d7cbf80cd233f694f09a9c0eaec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e1fa25a91091bbed691ba2996a6cee809e3309a2"},{"version":"9952d90ea2885d7cbf80cd233f694f09a9c0eaec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"06e2b5ad72b60f90bfe565c201346532e271f484"},{"version":"9952d90ea2885d7cbf80cd233f694f09a9c0eaec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9c8ce5d665653e3cf71a76349d41d7a7f7947e6"},{"version":"9952d90ea2885d7cbf80cd233f694f09a9c0eaec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"573ebae162111063eedc6c838a659ba628f66a0f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"5.15.199","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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