CVE-2022-3563

Linux Kernel BlueZ mgmt-tester.c read_50_controller_cap_complete null pointer dereference

At a glance

Severity: LOW 3.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.40 % · percentile 34 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-10-17
Updated: 2025-04-15
Assigner: VulDB
NVD status: Modified

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel. Affected is the function read_50_controller_cap_complete of the file tools/mgmt-tester.c of the component BlueZ. The manipulation of the argument cap_len leads to null pointer dereference. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-211086 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	LOW 3.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	VulDB
CVSS 3.1	LOW 3.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	NVD · cna@vuldb.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-404

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-42927
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-3563

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:bluez:bluez:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 5.65

Affected products

Product	Versions
Linux · Kernel	affected n/a

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD