Bluetooth: hci: validate codec capability element length (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74300
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.40 % · percentile 35 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci: validate codec capability element length Read Local Codec Capabilities returns a sequence of capability elements. Each element starts with a one-byte length followed by that many payload bytes. hci_read_codec_capabilities() checks that the skb contains the length byte, but then validates only caps->len against the remaining skb length. A malformed controller response with one remaining byte and caps->len set to one passes that check even though the element needs two bytes. The parser then records a two-byte capability and copies one byte beyond the advertised response payload into the codec list. Validate the full element size, including the length byte, before adding it to the accumulated capability length. This preserves all well-formed capability elements and drops only truncated controller responses.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6 < fc97fc8cf7f53fd3619db63e09050d20a3a0c4b1 ; affected 8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6 < 290b36f9d1eb9b2f72b40d826f26b4a182ab15f7 ; affected 8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6 < f2ad01f55e07f9531efcea736087e6b8658a3440 ; affected 8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6 < ec4d352747a62c1082f16c11a74b37d6eb85a5a3 ; affected 8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6 < 4bc16db0f11918e07edf9fdcda4a30cf4c9df45c ; affected 8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6 < c38fbcdc407925c7088f7e5f11c1fff73d2d35a2
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.16 ; unaffected 0 < 5.16 ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.97 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.40 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD