CVE-2023-54210

Bluetooth: hci_sync: Avoid use-after-free in dbg for hci_remove_adv_monitor()

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: December 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM UTC
Updated: October 28, 2026 at 07:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_sync: Avoid use-after-free in dbg for hci_remove_adv_monitor() KASAN reports that there's a use-after-free in hci_remove_adv_monitor(). Trawling through the disassembly, you can see that the complaint is from the access in bt_dev_dbg() under the HCI_ADV_MONITOR_EXT_MSFT case. The problem case happens because msft_remove_monitor() can end up freeing the monitor structure. Specifically: hci_remove_adv_monitor() -> msft_remove_monitor() -> msft_remove_monitor_sync() -> msft_le_cancel_monitor_advertisement_cb() -> hci_free_adv_monitor() Let's fix the problem by just stashing the relevant data when it's still valid.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.07cf5c2978f23fdbb2dd7b4e8b07e362ae2d8211c
Vendor states this is fixed in 0d4d6b083da9b033ddccef72d77f373c819ae3ea (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bf00c2c8f6254f44ac041aa9a311ae9e0caf692b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in de6dfcefd107667ce2dbedf4d9337f5ed557a4a1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.0 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.4.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.5 (unaffected)

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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