CVE-2022-50233 (GCVE-0-2022-50233)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-09 14:30
Modified
2026-08-05 08:57
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: 4c3dbb2c312c9fafbac30d98c523b8b1f3455d78
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              "value": "AV:L - The vulnerable strlen/eir_append paths are reached through the local HCI management socket (HCI_CHANNEL_CONTROL) via SET_LOCAL_NAME or READ_EXT_INFO, not by processing Bluetooth packets from a peer on the radio link.\nAC:L - After bluetoothd sets a typical adapter name of length \u003e= 10, hdev-\u003eshort_name is filled with 10 non-NUL bytes by memcpy, so strlen reliably reads out of bounds; an attacker can also set this state and trigger it deterministically with no race or attacker-uncontrollable condition.\nPR:L - READ_EXT_INFO is HCI_MGMT_UNTRUSTED so any local user can invoke append_eir_data_to_buf once the common non-NUL-terminated short_name state exists; on Android/desktop, apps or polkit-mediated users can also drive SET_LOCAL_NAME without init-namespace root.\nUI:N - The attacker opens their own HCI control socket and sends the mgmt command themselves; no separate victim action such as mounting a device or accepting a pairing request is required.\nS:U - Impact is host-kernel memory safety failure (OOB read/write and crash) within the same OS authority; this is not a VM escape, IOMMU/DMA bypass, or other cross-boundary compromise.\nC:H - strlen walks past short_name/dev_name into adjacent hci_dev fields, and eir_append_data copies that inflated u8 length into the READ_EXT_INFO response returned to userspace, disclosing more than a few bytes of kernel memory; stack/heap corruption from the same inflated length further enables read primitives.\nI:H - Inflated strlen results are passed into eir_append_data and written into undersized destinations (legacy scan_rsp HCI_MAX_AD_LENGTH=31, or the 512-byte mgmt ext-info stack buffer), producing out-of-bounds writes that can corrupt stack/heap and enable control-flow hijacking.\nA:H - The bugzilla reproducer hits fortify_panic/BUG in append_eir_data_to_buf on SET_LOCAL_NAME, and without FORTIFY the OOB read/write paths cause kernel oops/panic, fully denying availability."
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