# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-50255"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-11-09T10:15:08.658Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:48:34.942Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50255"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50255.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50255"
title: "Bluetooth: hci: fix null-ptr-deref in hci_read_supported_codecs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci: fix null-ptr-deref in hci_read_supported_codecs\n\nFix __hci_cmd_sync_sk() to return not NULL for unknown opcodes.\n\n__hci_cmd_sync_sk() returns NULL if a command returns a status event.\nHowever, it also returns NULL where an opcode doesn't exist in the\nhci_cc table because hci_cmd_complete_evt() assumes status = skb-\u003edata[0]\nfor unknown opcodes.\nThis leads to null-ptr-deref in cmd_sync for HCI_OP_READ_LOCAL_CODECS as\nthere is no hci_cc for HCI_OP_READ_LOCAL_CODECS, which always assumes\nstatus = skb-\u003edata[0].\n\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000070-0x0000000000000077]\nCPU: 1 PID: 2000 Comm: kworker/u9:5 Not tainted 6.9.0-ga6bcb805883c-dirty #10\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014\nWorkqueue: hci7 hci_power_on\nRIP: 0010:hci_read_supported_codecs+0xb9/0x870 net/bluetooth/hci_codec.c:138\nCode: 08 48 89 ef e8 b8 c1 8f fd 48 8b 75 00 e9 96 00 00 00 49 89 c6 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 8d 60 70 4c 89 e3 48 c1 eb 03 \u003c0f\u003e b6 04 13 84 c0 0f 85 82 06 00 00 41 83 3c 24 02 77 0a e8 bf 78\nRSP: 0018:ffff888120bafac8 EFLAGS: 00010212\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000e RCX: ffff8881173f0040\nRDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffffa58496c0 RDI: ffff88810b9ad1e4\nRBP: ffff88810b9ac000 R08: ffffffffa77882a7 R09: 1ffffffff4ef1054\nR10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff4ef1055 R12: 0000000000000070\nR13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88810b9ac000\nFS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f6c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f6ddaa3439e CR3: 0000000139764003 CR4: 0000000000770ef0\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n hci_read_local_codecs_sync net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:4546 [inline]\n hci_init_stage_sync net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:3441 [inline]\n hci_init4_sync net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:4706 [inline]\n hci_init_sync net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:4742 [inline]\n hci_dev_init_sync net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:4912 [inline]\n hci_dev_open_sync+0x19a9/0x2d30 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:4994\n hci_dev_do_open net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:483 [inline]\n hci_power_on+0x11e/0x560 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:1015\n process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3267 [inline]\n process_scheduled_works+0x8ef/0x14f0 kernel/workqueue.c:3348\n worker_thread+0x91f/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3429\n kthread+0x2cb/0x360 kernel/kthread.c:388\n ret_from_fork+0x4d/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"abfeea476c68afea54c9c050a2d3b19d5d2ee873","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d9054b9f769a8e124c4fa02072437c864726baf"},{"version":"abfeea476c68afea54c9c050a2d3b19d5d2ee873","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f1764466c33a4466363b821a25cd65c46a5a793"},{"version":"abfeea476c68afea54c9c050a2d3b19d5d2ee873","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"48d7c24b7ef6417c68f206566364db1f8087bb23"},{"version":"abfeea476c68afea54c9c050a2d3b19d5d2ee873","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e67d8641813f1876a42eeb4f532487b8a7fb0a8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.116","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.60","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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