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.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 4.14
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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