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Red Hat: CVE-2024-56590: kernel: Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix not checking skb length on hci_acldata_packet (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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