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FKIE_CVE-2025-53470

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-10 10:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:38
Severity
3.1 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in Apache NimBLE HCI H4 driver. Specially crafted HCI event could lead to invalid memory read in H4 driver. This issue affects Apache NimBLE: through 1.8.  This issue requires a broken or bogus Bluetooth controller and thus severity is considered low. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.9, which fixes the issue.
References
security@apache.orghttps://github.com/apache/mynewt-nimble/commit/b973df0c6cf7b30efbf8eb2cafdc1ee843464b76Patch
security@apache.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread/32sm0944dyod4sdql77stgyw9xb2msc0Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/08/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
apache nimble *
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