CVE-2026-64573 PUBLISHED

Bluetooth: qca: fix NVM tag length underflow in TLV parser

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 05.08.2026 Updated: 05.08.2026

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

Bluetooth: qca: fix NVM tag length underflow in TLV parser

In the TLV_TYPE_NVM branch of qca_tlv_check_data() the tag loop bound is "while (idx < length - sizeof(struct tlv_type_nvm))". "length" is a signed int from the firmware TLV header and sizeof(struct tlv_type_nvm) is a size_t (12), so "length" is converted to size_t and any firmware-supplied "length" < 12 makes the subtraction wrap to a huge value. The loop body then reads a 12-byte struct tlv_type_nvm past the end of the short vmalloc'd firmware buffer (and the EDL_TAG_ID_* handlers can write past it).

Rewrite the bound as "idx + sizeof(struct tlv_type_nvm) <= length"; both operands are non-negative, so it no longer underflows and a "length" too small for one record correctly skips the loop.

BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in qca_download_firmware.isra.0 (drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c:421) Read of size 2 at addr ffffc900000e5004 by task kworker/u9:0/52 Workqueue: hci0 hci_power_on Call Trace: ... kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595) qca_download_firmware.isra.0 (drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c:421 drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c:617) qca_uart_setup (drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c:948) qca_setup (drivers/bluetooth/hci_qca.c:2029) hci_uart_setup (drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c:438) hci_dev_open_sync (net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5227) hci_power_on (net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:920) process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3322) worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3486) kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436) ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158) ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245)

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 427281f9498ed614f9aabc80e46ec077c487da6d to 70354dbb5f72d9a76da7b031de3cbaf6c7d8fc24 (excl.)
  • affected from 2e4edfa1e2bd821a317e7d006517dcf2f3fac68d to 59fd2f075bca94f030c7c78e94878ea0803d7690 (excl.)
  • affected from 2e4edfa1e2bd821a317e7d006517dcf2f3fac68d to a087ed960fce54e9302796229e9d545bbc9bcd4a (excl.)
  • affected from 2e4edfa1e2bd821a317e7d006517dcf2f3fac68d to 4fcfb5b2c736785464ff9745f94c6726c5ee2d85 (excl.)
  • affected from 2e4edfa1e2bd821a317e7d006517dcf2f3fac68d to c90164ca0f7036942ba088eb7ea8d3f6c2352020 (excl.)
  • Version ed53949cc92e28aaa3463d246942bda1fbb7f307 is affected
  • Version 1caceadfb50432dbf6d808796cb6c34ebb6d662c is affected
  • Version 02f05ed44b71152d5e11d29be28aed91c0489b4e is affected
  • affected from 6.6.31 to 6.6.148 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.15.159 to 5.16 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.1.91 to 6.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.8.10 to 6.9 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.9 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.9 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.148 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc4 to * (incl.)

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