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CVE-2024-26889

medium

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix possible buffer overflow struct hci_dev_info has a fixed size na…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix possible buffer overflow struct hci_dev_info has a fixed size name[8] field so in the event that hdev->name is bigger than that strcpy would attempt to write past its size, so this fixes this problem by switching to use strscpy.

CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2024-04-17 11:15
Modified: 2026-10-30 13:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 3 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-30 13:38 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥4.14.328 <4.15, ≥4.19.297 <4.19.311, ≥5.4.259 <5.4.273, ≥5.10.199 <5.10.214, ≥5.15.137 <5.15.153, ≥6.1.60 <6.1.83
debian / debian_linux 10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e845867b4e279eff0a19ade253390470e07e8a1
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2edce8e9a99dd5e4404259d52e754fdc97fb42c2
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54a03e4ac1a41edf8a5087bd59f8241b0de96d3d
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d5a9d4a7bcbb7534ce45a18a52e7bd23e69d8ac
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81137162bfaa7278785b24c1fd2e9e74f082e8e4
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c28598a2c29201d2ba7fc37539a7d41c264fb10
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a41c8efe659caed0e21422876bbb6b73c15b5244
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d47e6c1932cee02954ea588c9f09fd5ecefeadfc
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e845867b4e279eff0a19ade253390470e07e8a1
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2edce8e9a99dd5e4404259d52e754fdc97fb42c2

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-30 13:38 UTC · record ↗

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