{"id":"CVE-2022-50233","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: eir: Fix using strlen with hdev->{dev_name,short_name}\n\nBoth dev_name and short_name are not guaranteed to be NULL terminated so\nthis instead use strnlen and…","summary":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: eir: Fix using strlen with hdev->{dev_name,short_name}\n\nBoth dev_name and short_name are not guaranteed to be NULL terminated so\nthis instead use strnlen and…","severity":"high","cvss":7.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","vendor":"linux","product":"linux_kernel","affected":["linux_kernel >= 4.14, < 6.0"],"patched":["linux_kernel 6.0"],"published":"2025-08-09","updated":"2026-10-15","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-15T22:17:28.033","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50233","references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd7b8cdde098cf9f7c8de409b5b7bbb98f97be80","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"epss":0.0014,"epssPercentile":0.03313,"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"total","timestamp":"2026-10-15T21:30:31.967277Z"},"ingestedAt":"2026-10-15T21:45:11.281Z","slug":"CVE-2022-50233","body":"## Overview\n\nIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: eir: Fix using strlen with hdev->{dev_name,short_name}\n\nBoth dev_name and short_name are not guaranteed to be NULL terminated so\nthis instead use strnlen and then attempt to determine if the resulting\nstring needs to be truncated or not.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `linux_kernel >= 4.14, < 6.0`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade past the affected range:\n\n- `linux_kernel 6.0`","depth":"twilight","depthScore":43,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":42.9,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}