Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: btbcm: Fix NULL deref in btbcm_get_board_name()

devm_kstrdup() can return a NULL pointer on failure,but this
returned value in btbcm_get_board_name() is not checked.
Add NULL check in btbcm_get_board_name(), to handle kernel NULL
pointer dereference error.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-57988

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux, Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 1.68% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-27 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57988
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df2f2d9199e61819cca5da0121dfa4d4cb57000f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74af8b9d0e79deefd2d43e14b84575839a849169
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b88655bc6593c6a7fdc1248b212d17e581c4334e

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