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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 20, 2024· Updated Dec 18, 2025

Bluetooth: refactor malicious adv data check

CVE-2021-47620

Description

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

Bluetooth: refactor malicious adv data check

Check for out-of-bound read was being performed at the end of while num_reports loop, and would fill journal with false positives. Added check to beginning of loop processing so that it doesn't get checked after ptr has been advanced.

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