CVE-2025-53470 (GCVE-0-2025-53470)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-10 09:46 – Updated: 2026-01-12 19:12
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Title
Apache Mynewt NimBLE: Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability in NimBLE HCI H4 driver
Summary
Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in Apache NimBLE HCI H4 driver. Specially crafted HCI event could lead to invalid memory read in H4 driver. This issue affects Apache NimBLE: through 1.8.  This issue requires a broken or bogus Bluetooth controller and thus severity is considered low. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.9, which fixes the issue.
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Apache Software Foundation Apache Mynewt NimBLE Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.8 (semver)
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雷重庆 <leicq@seu.edu.cn>
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