CVE-2025-38303 (GCVE-0-2025-38303)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-10 07:42 – Updated: 2025-07-28 04:18
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Title
Bluetooth: eir: Fix possible crashes on eir_create_adv_data
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: eir: Fix possible crashes on eir_create_adv_data eir_create_adv_data may attempt to add EIR_FLAGS and EIR_TX_POWER without checking if that would fit.
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Linux Linux Affected: 01ce70b0a274bd76a5a311fb90d4d446d9bdfea1 , < 2af40d795d3fb0ee5c074b7ac56ab22402aa6e4f (git)
Affected: 01ce70b0a274bd76a5a311fb90d4d446d9bdfea1 , < b9db0c27e73b7c8a19384a44af527edfda74ff3d (git)
Affected: 01ce70b0a274bd76a5a311fb90d4d446d9bdfea1 , < 47c03902269aff377f959dc3fd94a9733aa31d6e (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.34 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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