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CVE-2025-21937 (GCVE-0-2025-21937)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-01 15:41 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:57
VLAI
Title
Bluetooth: Add check for mgmt_alloc_skb() in mgmt_remote_name()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: Add check for mgmt_alloc_skb() in mgmt_remote_name() Add check for the return value of mgmt_alloc_skb() in mgmt_remote_name() to prevent null pointer dereference.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 19:22 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ba17bb62ce415950753c19d16bb43b2bd3701158 , < 37785a01040cb5d11ed0ddbcbf78491fcd073161 (git)
Affected: ba17bb62ce415950753c19d16bb43b2bd3701158 , < c5845c73cbacf5704169283ef29ca02031a36564 (git)
Affected: ba17bb62ce415950753c19d16bb43b2bd3701158 , < 88310caff68ae69d0574859f7926a59c1da2d60b (git)
Affected: ba17bb62ce415950753c19d16bb43b2bd3701158 , < 69fb168b88e4d62cb31cdd725b67ccc5216cfcaf (git)
Affected: ba17bb62ce415950753c19d16bb43b2bd3701158 , < f2176a07e7b19f73e05c805cf3d130a2999154cb (git)
Affected: 0f526a6d3e9347d94c2c0b5292a3cb3b25115019 (git)
Affected: 5.17.2 , < 5.18 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.131 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.83 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.19 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.7 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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