Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: MGMT: Add error handling to pair_device()
hci_conn_params_add() never checks for a NULL value and could lead to a NULL pointer dereference causing a crash.
Fixed by adding error handling in the function.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+8 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: MGMT: Add error handling to pair_device()
hci_conn_params_add() never checks for a NULL value and could lead to a NULL pointer dereference causing a crash.
Fixed by adding error handling in the function.