CVE-2023-54038

Linux Kernel 6.4-6.4.6 - Null Pointer Dereference in Bluetooth HCI Connection Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.4%

Details

Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.4.0 - 6.4.7linux
Linux/Linux < 6.4
Linux/Linux 06149746e7203d5ffe2d6faf9799ee36203aa8b8 - 357ab53c83a5322437fa434e9a9e3e0bafe6b383
Linux/Linux 06149746e7203d5ffe2d6faf9799ee36203aa8b8 - b4066eb04bb67e7ff66e5aaab0db4a753f37eaad
Linux/Linux 6.3.8 - 6.4
Linux/Linux 6.4
Linux/Linux 6.4.7 - 6.4.*
Linux/Linux 6.5
Linux/Linux f72fc94a17d45be98aecfd59c39b5b24a6a342e2
Published Dec 24, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026