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        "cveId": "CVE-2023-54038",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-12-24T10:53:46.181Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-12-24T10:56:04.623Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-23T15:32:08.724Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_conn: return ERR_PTR instead of NULL when there is no link\n\nhci_connect_sco currently returns NULL when there is no link (i.e. when\nhci_conn_link() returns NULL).\n\nsco_connect() expects an ERR_PTR in case of any error (see line 266 in\nsco.c). Thus, hcon set as NULL passes through to sco_conn_add(), which\ntries to get hcon->hdev, resulting in dereferencing a NULL pointer as\nreported by syzkaller.\n\nThe same issue exists for iso_connect_cis() calling hci_connect_cis().\n\nThus, make hci_connect_sco() and hci_connect_cis() return ERR_PTR\ninstead of NULL."
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/357ab53c83a5322437fa434e9a9e3e0bafe6b383"
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4066eb04bb67e7ff66e5aaab0db4a753f37eaad"
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