# CVE-2024-35851: Bluetooth: qca: fix NULL-deref on non-serdev suspend

> A missing sanity check in the Linux kernel Bluetooth driver causes a null pointer dereference and system crash during suspend for specific Qualcomm controllers.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 17 May 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-35851, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35851, GHSA-6579-jp4w-xm59, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-35851

## What is CVE-2024-35851?

CVE-2024-35851 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: qca: fix NULL-deref on non-serdev suspend

Qualcomm ROME controllers can be registered from the Bluetooth line
discipline and in this case the HCI UART serdev pointer is NULL.

Add the missing sanity check to prevent a NULL-pointer dereference when
wakeup() is called for a non-serdev controller during suspend.

Just return true for now to restore the original behaviour and address
the crash with pre-6.2 kernels, which do not have commit e9b3e5b8c657
("Bluetooth: hci_qca: only assign wakeup with serial port support") that
causes the crash to happen already at setup() time.

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-35851?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-35851?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-35851 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-35851 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-35851 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-35851 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-35851 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35851/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-35851/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-35851
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35851
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-35851

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