CVE-2023-54038: linux

CVSS: UnknownDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54038DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54038
Published 24-12-2025Last modified 23-05-2026
Open JSON

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-54038 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.18%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 9 · Related 8
RHSA-2024:2394SUSE-SU-2026:0278-1SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1SUSE-SU-2026:0315-1SUSE-SU-2026:20477-1

Timeline

  1. 24-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.18%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

7%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.18% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.18%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu85 products
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.13All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.4.11-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 06149746e7203d5ffe2d6faf9799ee36203aa8b8, < 357ab53c83a5322437fa434e9a9e3e0bafe6b383 | ≥ 06149746e7203d5ffe2d6faf9799ee36203aa8b8, < b4066eb04bb67e7ff66e5aaab0db4a753f37eaad | f72fc94a17d45be98aecfd59c39b5b24a6a342e2 | ≥ 6.3.8, < 6.4 | 6.4

3 vendors · 87 products

References

5 links