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CVE-2025-40213 (GCVE-0-2025-40213)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-24 15:59 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:08
VLAI
Title
Bluetooth: MGMT: fix crash in set_mesh_sync and set_mesh_complete
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: MGMT: fix crash in set_mesh_sync and set_mesh_complete There is a BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in set_mesh_sync due to memcpy from badly declared on-stack flexible array. Another crash is in set_mesh_complete() due to double list_del via mgmt_pending_valid + mgmt_pending_remove. Use DEFINE_FLEX to declare the flexible array right, and don't memcpy outside bounds. As mgmt_pending_valid removes the cmd from list, use mgmt_pending_free, and also report status on error.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d71b98f253b079cbadc83266383f26fe7e9e103b , < 5c19daa93d9af29f1f46251b47e1ea66bcc8d679 (git)
Affected: 302a1f674c00dd5581ab8e493ef44767c5101aab , < 1c9aca1787e8395a2c59fef20e914467958969c5 (git)
Affected: 302a1f674c00dd5581ab8e493ef44767c5101aab , < e8785404de06a69d89dcdd1e9a0b6ea42dc6d327 (git)
Affected: 0b60eb04b8524e1b4b3f07fea0d16fda9a677d9a (git)
Affected: 87a1f16f07c6c43771754075e08f45b41d237421 (git)
Affected: 6.6.140 , < 6.7 (semver)
Affected: 6.16.10 , < 6.17 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.8 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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