CVE-2024-57988

Bluetooth: btbcm: Fix NULL deref in btbcm_get_board_name()

Medium · published February 27, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: btbcm: Fix NULL deref in btbcm_get_board_name()

devm_kstrdup() can return a NULL pointer on failure,but this

returned value in btbcm_get_board_name() is not checked.

Add NULL check in btbcm_get_board_name(), to handle kernel NULL

pointer dereference error.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00218 · 11.6th percentile
Published
2025-02-27T02:07Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 FEB 02:07Z
    Bluetooth: btbcm: Fix NULL deref in btbcm_get_board_name()
    cvelistv5