CVE-2022-50233

CVE-2022-50233

High · published August 9, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00140 · 3.0th percentile
Published
2025-08-09T19:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.14, < 6.06.0
References (1)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 AUG 14:30Z
    Bluetooth: eir: Fix using strlen with hdev->{dev_name,short_name}
    cvelistv5