CVE-2026-74300

Bluetooth: hci: validate codec capability element length

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Oct 16, 2026
Reserved
Aug 15, 2026

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6 to before fc97fc8cf7f53fd3619db63e09050d20a3a0c4b1Affected
  • 8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6 to before 290b36f9d1eb9b2f72b40d826f26b4a182ab15f7Affected
  • 8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6 to before f2ad01f55e07f9531efcea736087e6b8658a3440Affected
  • 8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6 to before ec4d352747a62c1082f16c11a74b37d6eb85a5a3Affected
  • 8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6 to before 4bc16db0f11918e07edf9fdcda4a30cf4c9df45cAffected
  • 8961987f3f5fa2f2618e72304d013c8dd5e604a6 to before c38fbcdc407925c7088f7e5f11c1fff73d2d35a2Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.16Affected
  • before 5.16Not affected
  • 6.1.178 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.97 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

References

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