CVE-2025-37792

Name	CVE-2025-37792
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btrtl: Prevent potential NULL dereference The btrtl_initialize() function checks that rtl_load_file() either had an error or it loaded a zero length file. However, if it loaded a zero length file then the error code is not set correctly. It results in an error pointer vs NULL bug, followed by a NULL pointer dereference. This was detected by Smatch: drivers/bluetooth/btrtl.c:592 btrtl_initialize() warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR'
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-4178-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.237-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.137-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.140-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.27-1	fixed
	sid	6.12.29-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	bullseye	5.10.237-1	DLA-4178-1
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.135-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.12.25-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/324dddea321078a6eeb535c2bff5257be74c9799 (6.15-rc3)