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Multiple NVIDIA Products Vulnerabilities

April 23, 2025
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Multiple Apple macOS Sonoma Vulnerabilities

April 23, 2025

Multiple Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

CVE-2023-53017 CVSS:5.5

Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak in hci_update_adv_data().

CVE-2023-53018 CVSS:5.5

Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leaks in Bluetooth: hci_conn.

CVE-2023-53016 CVSS:5.5

Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a deadlock in rfcomm_sk_state_change.

Impact

  • Denial of Service

Indicators of Compromise

CVE

  • CVE-2023-53017

  • CVE-2023-53018

  • CVE-2023-53016

Affected Vendors

Linux

Affected Products

  • Linux Kernel - 651cd3d65b0f76a2198fcf3a80ce5d53dd267717
  • Linux Kernel - 6.1
  • Linux Kernel - eca0ae4aea66914515e5e3098ea051b518ee5316
  • Linux Kernel - 6.0
  • Linux Kernel - 1804fdf6e494e5e2938c65d8391690b59bcff897
  • Linux Kernel - 5.15

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of Kernel, available from the Linux Kernel GIT Repository.

CVE-2023-53017

CVE-2023-53018

CVE-2023-53016

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