Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in gatt-database.c in BlueZ 5.61. A use-after-free can occur when a client disconnects during D-Bus processing of a WriteValue call.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-43400
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in gatt-database.c in BlueZ 5.61. A use-after-free can occur when a client disconnects during D-Bus processing of a WriteValue call.
osv:CVE-2021-43400
Complete source record
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