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GHSA-GVVJ-7P7C-XPHQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-12-27 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:31

Details

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

Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix not checking skb length on hci_acldata_packet

This fixes not checking if skb really contains an ACL header otherwise the code may attempt to access some uninitilized/invalid memory past the valid skb->data.

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2024-56590 (GCVE-0-2024-56590)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-27 14:50 – Updated: 2026-01-05 10:55

Title

Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix not checking skb length on hci_acldata_packet

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix not checking skb length on hci_acldata_packet This fixes not checking if skb really contains an ACL header otherwise the code may attempt to access some uninitilized/invalid memory past the valid skb->data.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/219960a48771b35a3…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/559b1c7ac2e212a23…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e50d12cc6e95e1fd…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93a6160dc198ffe57…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fe288a8214e7dd78…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 219960a48771b35a3857a491b955c31d6c33d581 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 559b1c7ac2e212a23b3833d3baf3bd957771d02e (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 5e50d12cc6e95e1fde08f5db6992b616f714b0fb (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 93a6160dc198ffe5786da8bd8588cfd17f53b29a (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 3fe288a8214e7dd784d1f9b7c9e448244d316b47 (git)

Linux

Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.174 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.120 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.66 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.5 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-GVVJ-7P7C-XPHQ

CVE-2024-56590 (GCVE-0-2024-56590)

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