# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-54038"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:56:04.623Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:32:08.724Z"
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-2023-54038"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54038.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54038"
title: "Bluetooth: hci_conn: return ERR_PTR instead of NULL when there is no link"
summary: "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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"06149746e7203d5ffe2d6faf9799ee36203aa8b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"357ab53c83a5322437fa434e9a9e3e0bafe6b383"},{"version":"06149746e7203d5ffe2d6faf9799ee36203aa8b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4066eb04bb67e7ff66e5aaab0db4a753f37eaad"},{"version":"f72fc94a17d45be98aecfd59c39b5b24a6a342e2","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.3.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.4.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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