CVE-2023-53297

Updated on 16 Sep 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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

Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix “bad unlock balance” in l2cap_disconnect_rsp

conn->chan_lock isn’t acquired before l2cap_get_chan_by_scid, if l2cap_get_chan_by_scid returns NULL, then ‘bad unlock balance’ is triggered.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 3.10.0 (+13 more)

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

Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix “bad unlock balance” in l2cap_disconnect_rsp

conn->chan_lock isn’t acquired before l2cap_get_chan_by_scid, if l2cap_get_chan_by_scid returns NULL, then ‘bad unlock balance’ is triggered.

Fixes