CVE-2025-37792

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - NULL Pointer Dereference in Bluetooth btrtl_initialize

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btrtl: Prevent potential NULL dereference The btrtl_initialize() function checks that rtl_load_file() either had an error or it loaded a zero length file. However, if it loaded a zero length file then the error code is not set correctly. It results in an error pointer vs NULL bug, followed by a NULL pointer dereference. This was detected by Smatch: drivers/bluetooth/btrtl.c:592 btrtl_initialize() warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR'

References (10)

Core 10
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 20.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (28)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 4.19.0 - 5.4.293linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.181linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.135linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.237linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.14.4linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.88linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.25linux
Linux/Linux < 4.19
Linux/Linux 26503ad25de8c7c93a2037f919c2e49a62cf65f1 - 2d7c60c2a38b4b461fa960ad0995136a6bfe0756
... and 18 more
Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026