CVE-2022-50233 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
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Vendor revision: Oct 31, 2026
Release Notes
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2022-50233?
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: eir: Fix using strlen with hdev->{dev_name,short_name}
Both dev_name and short_name are not guaranteed to be NULL terminated so this instead use strnlen and then attempt to determine if the resulting string needs to be truncated or not.