CVE-2023-54214
High
Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix potential user-after-free
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix potential user-after-free This fixes all instances of which requires to allocate a buffer calling alloc_skb which may release the chan lock and reacquire later which makes it possible that the chan is disconnected in the meantime.
Exploit probability
0.3%
Published
December 30, 2025
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2023-54214
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix potential user-after-free This fixes all instances of which requires to allocate a buffer calling alloc_skb which may release the chan lock and reacquire later which makes it possible that the chan is disconnected in the meantime.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31a288a4df7f6a28e65da22a4ab2add4a963738e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60aaccf16d1e099c16bebfb96428ae762cb528f7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64e28ecf44e46de9f01915a4146706a21c3469d2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/994e3e18908f5c4a12d07b44018e6aa85f071048
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6a7d1541fefddf7ca0cfb34c1bff63ff809cc49
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2fde8cb2a25125111f2144604e0e7c0ebcc4bba
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8ed41cc04fb74005aa51d17865ca3d022760335
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df5703348813235874d851934e957c3723d71644
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/54xxx/CVE-2023-54214.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-54214