CVE-2026-90257 PUBLISHED

Bluetooth: virtio_bt: avoid OOB read of build info string

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: virtio_bt: avoid OOB read of build info string

The virtbt_setup_zephyr() sends the Zephyr vendor command 0xfc08 (Read Build Information) and hands the response to bt_dev_info() and hci_set_fw_info() as a "%s" string starting at skb->data + 1, without checking the length. A backend that answers with status only leaves that pointer past the end of the received data, so the walk reads adjacent slab memory until it meets a NUL. Those bytes reach the kernel log and the firmware-info debugfs file.

To fix this, print the string with a bounded "%.*s" limited to skb->len - 1. A short or unterminated response then prints as much as arrived instead of failing setup.

This mirrors commit dd068ef04412 ("Bluetooth: bpa10x: avoid OOB read of revision string in bpa10x_setup()"), which fixed the identical pattern.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from afd2daa26c7abd734d78bd274fc6c59a15e61063 to fb445b3466a8d1c7a0b0d0676fb475e3ce22d94e (excl.)
  • affected from afd2daa26c7abd734d78bd274fc6c59a15e61063 to d08c99abf06133a7829d46627e77e3315ca974d2 (excl.)
  • affected from afd2daa26c7abd734d78bd274fc6c59a15e61063 to 0e388d805233a883a31271676eae6031dfc9e898 (excl.)
  • affected from afd2daa26c7abd734d78bd274fc6c59a15e61063 to 54e9387eb7546eaa6f600220599d55740956ffc3 (excl.)
  • affected from afd2daa26c7abd734d78bd274fc6c59a15e61063 to be1e3df2c49c91b0a052c6563884e8d39bd768b2 (excl.)
  • affected from afd2daa26c7abd734d78bd274fc6c59a15e61063 to 84ea9c99874804f5ca13f35bbc186ba93902f30f (excl.)
  • affected from afd2daa26c7abd734d78bd274fc6c59a15e61063 to 502adc06ba76dee19c292ae4a07d74d202fe734d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.13 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.13 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.221 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • 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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