CVE-2026-98602 PUBLISHED

Bluetooth: bnep: fix out-of-bounds reads on short RX/TX frames and control fallthrough

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

Bluetooth: bnep: fix out-of-bounds reads on short RX/TX frames and control fallthrough

Fix multiple out-of-bounds reads in Bluetooth BNEP frame processing:

  1. In bnep_rx_frame() and bnep_ctrl_frame() (net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c), use pskb_may_pull() to verify the BNEP header, control type byte, filter count, and extension headers exist before reading them, and return 0 after handling BNEP_CONTROL instead of falling through to Ethernet frame submission when no extension headers follow.
  2. In bnep_net_xmit() (net/bluetooth/bnep/netdev.c), verify skb->len >= ETH_HLEN with pskb_may_pull() before reading the 14-byte Ethernet header to prevent an out-of-bounds heap read and infoleak on short AF_PACKET TX frames.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 7af80ad2cebfe2f1879d6a39a1aaa061d9c4e1ca (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 667aa703e11cdc237d169393bc6a5ea9acbb33c2 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 3e605ff5932afe0970c2beca66f2f1ba2babe4dd (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 035f9b1809861967e58ce652680d70ea1502058f (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 1e7aebc188f889b56c3aaeb6133ef6d77022c887 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 8f31031326994d1abfcc6ebb6927ef96e51fb9ff (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to ad0d2d4ada51321db787262ef343193c712b76b5 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to f0ca020cbb9bb7f3f4ea8ba1dfcf30a282aec91e (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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