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CVE-2023-5753 (GCVE-0-2023-5753)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-24 16:09 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:25
VLAI
Title
Potential buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the Zephyr Bluetooth subsystem
Summary
Potential buffer overflows in the Bluetooth subsystem due to asserts being disabled in /subsys/bluetooth/host/hci_core.c
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
  • CWE-191 - Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
zephyrproject-rtos Zephyr Affected: * , < 3.5 (git)
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