CVE-2026-90089 PUBLISHED

Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Validate the FW dump header length

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Validate the FW dump header length

nxp_process_fw_dump() pulls the ACL header off the frame and then reads seq_num and buf_len from a struct nxp_fw_dump_hdr placed at skb->data, without checking that the ACL payload is long enough to contain it.

h4_recv_buf() collects HCI_ACL_HDR_SIZE bytes of header followed by the number of payload bytes named in that header, so skb->len is 4 + dlen with dlen supplied by the controller and possibly smaller than the 8 byte dump header, or zero. A short frame with connection handle 0xfff therefore reads both fields from beyond the received data.

Beyond the read itself, buf_len is what terminates a dump: a value of zero makes the driver call hci_devcd_complete() and reset the controller, so a truncated frame can end a dump early.

Use skb_pull_data() to validate and pull the FW dump header before accessing its fields. Warn and reject the chunk if the header is truncated.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 998e447f443f138c90faa6ff3845082af419070e to a644b8df94966b672ac656577df98bd01bc88393 (excl.)
  • affected from 998e447f443f138c90faa6ff3845082af419070e to 22d419db7f9a01bea22cfcf66774d2b2fd4bb354 (excl.)
  • affected from 998e447f443f138c90faa6ff3845082af419070e to 060fa7592bdc043a93b6b7870f5b8551206d315d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.15 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.15 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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