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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 17, 2024· Updated May 12, 2026

CVE-2024-26889

CVE-2024-26889

Description

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

Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix possible buffer overflow

struct hci_dev_info has a fixed size name[8] field so in the event that hdev->name is bigger than that strcpy would attempt to write past its size, so this fixes this problem by switching to use strscpy.

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