CVE-2024-36880

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Published 2025-05-13 · Modified 2025-05-13

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: qca: add missing firmware sanity checks Add the missing sanity checks when parsing the firmware files before downloading them to avoid accessing and corrupting memory beyond the vmalloced buffer.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-36880

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36880.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.94-1`
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	forky	fixed	`6.8.11-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.8.11-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.8.11-1`

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.