CVE-2021-43400 (GCVE-0-2021-43400)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-04 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:09
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Summary
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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