# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40301"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-08T00:46:24.863Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:09:20.526Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-40301"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40301.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40301"
title: "Bluetooth: hci_event: validate skb length for unknown CC opcode"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_event: validate skb length for unknown CC opcode\n\nIn hci_cmd_complete_evt(), if the command complete event has an unknown\nopcode, we assume the first byte of the remaining skb-\u003edata contains the\nreturn status. However, parameter data has previously been pulled in\nhci_event_func(), which may leave the skb empty. If so, using skb-\u003edata[0]\nfor the return status uses un-init memory.\n\nThe fix is to check skb-\u003elen before using skb-\u003edata."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"afcb3369f46ed5dc883a7b92f2dd1e264d79d388","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fea895de78d3bb2f0c09db9f10b18f8121b15759"},{"version":"afcb3369f46ed5dc883a7b92f2dd1e264d79d388","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"779f83a91d4f1bf5ddfeaf528420cbb6dbf03fa8"},{"version":"afcb3369f46ed5dc883a7b92f2dd1e264d79d388","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf2c2acec1cf456c3d11c11a7589e886a0f963a9"},{"version":"afcb3369f46ed5dc883a7b92f2dd1e264d79d388","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a0ddaaf97405dbd11d4cb5a961a3f82400e8a50"},{"version":"afcb3369f46ed5dc883a7b92f2dd1e264d79d388","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c5f1f64681cc889d9b13e4a61285e9e029d6ab5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.159","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.117","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.58","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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