FKIE_CVE-2022-50233

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-09 15:15 - Updated: 2025-11-19 17:13
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd7b8cdde098cf9f7c8de409b5b7bbb98f97be80Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
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  "lastModified": "2025-11-19T17:13:46.420",
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