CVE-2023-54038

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54038
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54038.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-54038
Downstream
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
RHSA (1)
SUSE (8)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Published
2025-12-24T10:56:04Z
Modified
2026-10-08T02:48:35Z
Summary
Bluetooth: hci_conn: return ERR_PTR instead of NULL when there is no link
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_conn: return ERR_PTR instead of NULL when there is no link

hci_connect_sco currently returns NULL when there is no link (i.e. when hci_conn_link() returns NULL).

sco_connect() expects an ERR_PTR in case of any error (see line 266 in sco.c). Thus, hcon set as NULL passes through to sco_conn_add(), which tries to get hcon->hdev, resulting in dereferencing a NULL pointer as reported by syzkaller.

The same issue exists for iso_connect_cis() calling hci_connect_cis().

Thus, make hci_connect_sco() and hci_connect_cis() return ERR_PTR instead of NULL.

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/54xxx/CVE-2023-54038.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
06149746e7203d5ffe2d6faf9799ee36203aa8b8
Fixed
357ab53c83a5322437fa434e9a9e3e0bafe6b383
Fixed
b4066eb04bb67e7ff66e5aaab0db4a753f37eaad
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.3.8
Fixed
6.4
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
f72fc94a17d45be98aecfd59c39b5b24a6a342e2

Affected versions

v6.*
v6.3.10
v6.3.11
v6.3.12
v6.3.13
v6.3.8
v6.3.9

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54038.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.4.0
Fixed
6.4.7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54038.json"