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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 9, 2025· Updated Oct 29, 2025

Bluetooth: eir: Fix using strlen with hdev->{dev_name,short_name}

CVE-2022-50233

Description

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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