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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-43400

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 07:34 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-43400

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 Nov 2021, 23:15 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-43400",
  "method": "structured",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:55.053462222Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00026.html",
        "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=838c0dc7641e1c991c0f3027bf94bee4606012f8"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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