CVE-2025-38304 (GCVE-0-2025-38304)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-10 07:42 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:25
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Bluetooth: Fix NULL pointer deference on eir_get_service_data
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: Fix NULL pointer deference on eir_get_service_data
The len parameter is considered optional so it can be NULL so it cannot
be used for skipping to next entry of EIR_SERVICE_DATA.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
8f9ae5b3ae80f168a6224529e3787f4fb27f299a , < 497c9d2d7d3983826bb02c10fb4a5818be6550fb
(git)
Affected: 8f9ae5b3ae80f168a6224529e3787f4fb27f299a , < 4bf29910570666e668a60d953f8da78e95bb7fa2 (git) Affected: 8f9ae5b3ae80f168a6224529e3787f4fb27f299a , < 842f7c3154d5b25ca11753c02ee8cf6ee64c0142 (git) Affected: 8f9ae5b3ae80f168a6224529e3787f4fb27f299a , < 7d99cc0f8e6fa0f35570887899f178122a61d44e (git) Affected: 8f9ae5b3ae80f168a6224529e3787f4fb27f299a , < 20a2aa01f5aeb6daad9aeaa7c33dd512c58d81eb (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.142 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.94 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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