CVE-2024-35850: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: qca: fix NULL-deref on non-serdev setup Qualcomm ROME controllers can be registered from the Bluetooth line discipline and in this case the HCI UART serdev pointer is NULL. Add the missing sanity check to prevent a NULL-pointer dereference when setup() is called for a non-serdev controller.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.2, before 6.6.30 (fixed in 6.6.30); from 6.7, before 6.8.9 (fixed in 6.8.9); version 6.9 only

Published 2024-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.