CVE-2026-31771
Bluetooth: hci_event: move wake reason storage into validated event handlers
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.1 High
- Published
- May 1, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 30, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 9, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_event: move wake reason storage into validated event handlers
hci_store_wake_reason() is called from hci_event_packet() immediately after stripping the HCI event header but before hci_event_func() enforces the per-event minimum payload length from hci_ev_table. This means a short HCI event frame can reach bacpy() before any bounds check runs.
Rather than duplicating skb parsing and per-event length checks inside hci_store_wake_reason(), move wake-address storage into the individual event handlers after their existing event-length validation has succeeded. Convert hci_store_wake_reason() into a small helper that only stores an already-validated bdaddr while the caller holds hci_dev_lock(). Use the same helper after hci_event_func() with a NULL address to preserve the existing unexpected-wake fallback semantics when no validated event handler records a wake address.
Annotate the helper with __must_hold(&hdev->lock) and add lockdep_assert_held(&hdev->lock) so future call paths keep the lock contract explicit.
Call the helper from hci_conn_request_evt(), hci_conn_complete_evt(), hci_sync_conn_complete_evt(), le_conn_complete_evt(), hci_le_adv_report_evt(), hci_le_ext_adv_report_evt(), hci_le_direct_adv_report_evt(), hci_le_pa_sync_established_evt(), and hci_le_past_received_evt().
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 8.1 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H | Linux |
Weaknesses
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fbea63d0d301edd4a42f4390b49b8519d78b802d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e4b738dd0d0f7b237686167706badad9d30649c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac7889b0fe441e4ef892c40b1d002e91f93fa4ae
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbc8b8d33c9e19e17e8b8b1361bbb46e2983f5f2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86c8d07a64d553c41e213b52650020010f9ef23e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b2bf47cd75518c36fa2d41380e4a40641cc89cd
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