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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40308" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-08T00:46:33.729Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:02:02.594Z" 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-2025-40308" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40308.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40308" title: "Bluetooth: bcsp: receive data only if registered" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: bcsp: receive data only if registered\n\nCurrently, bcsp_recv() can be called even when the BCSP protocol has not\nbeen registered. This leads to a NULL pointer dereference, as shown in\nthe following stack trace:\n\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000108-0x000000000000010f]\n RIP: 0010:bcsp_recv+0x13d/0x1740 drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcsp.c:590\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n hci_uart_tty_receive+0x194/0x220 drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c:627\n tiocsti+0x23c/0x2c0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2290\n tty_ioctl+0x626/0xde0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2706\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nTo prevent this, ensure that the HCI_UART_REGISTERED flag is set before\nprocessing received data. If the protocol is not registered, return\n-EUNATCH." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"48effdb7a798232db945503cf3f51e0be8070cea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39a7d40314b6288cfa2d13269275e9247a7a055a"},{"version":"45fa7bd82c6178f4fec0ab94891144a043ec5fe8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"164586725b47f9d61912e6bf17dbaffeff11710b"},{"version":"d71a57a34ab6bbc95dc461158403c02e8ff3f912","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b65ca9708bfbf47d8b7bd44b7c574bd16798e9c9"},{"version":"9cf7dccaa7f4c56d2089700e5cb11f85a8d5f6cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b892dbef3887dbe9afdc7176d1a5fd90e1636aa"},{"version":"806464634e7fc6b523160defeeddb1ade2a72f81","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"799cd62cbcc3f12ee04b33ef390ff7d41c37d671"},{"version":"6b7a32fa9bacdebd98c18b2a56994116995ee643","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b420a4c7f915fc1c94ad1f6ca740acc046d94334"},{"version":"366ceff495f902182d42b6f41525c2474caf3f9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55c1519fca830f59a10bbf9aa8209c87b06cf7bc"},{"version":"366ceff495f902182d42b6f41525c2474caf3f9a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ca94b2b036c22556c3a66f1b80f490882deef7a6"},{"version":"15543b7bbe7b5f744fdbb44f75b14f81a0117813","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a4b89a45b12b69bc82c8137346b150a118e02c26","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.293","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.302"},{"version":"5.10.237","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.247"},{"version":"5.15.181","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.197"},{"version":"6.1.135","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.159"},{"version":"6.6.88","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.117"},{"version":"6.12.24","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.58"},{"version":"6.13.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.14"},{"version":"6.14.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"5.4.302","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.247","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.197","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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