CVE-2022-50233 (GCVE-0-2022-50233)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-09 14:30 – Updated: 2025-10-29 10:50
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: eir: Fix using strlen with hdev->{dev_name,short_name} Both dev_name and short_name are not guaranteed to be NULL terminated so this instead use strnlen and then attempt to determine if the resulting string needs to be truncated or not.
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Linux Linux Affected: 4c3dbb2c312c9fafbac30d98c523b8b1f3455d78 , < dd7b8cdde098cf9f7c8de409b5b7bbb98f97be80 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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