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High 7.8Published Aug 15, 2026

CVE-2026-68479Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds rtlbt_parse_firmware() copies patch_length - 4 bytes before appending the firmware version. A malformed firmware patch shorter than the version field can make this subtraction underflow and turn the copy into an oversized read and write during Bluetooth setup. The existing patch_offset + patch_length check can also wrap on 32-bit architectures. Validate the patch length and range without arithmetic overflow before allocating or copying the patch.

CVSS
7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Received
Record last updated
Oct 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from db33c77dddc2ed2cff3061d0b096a9f5ab0c3647 before 39e01b4addfbbe177567d6ed1dfb81f9cccb19e6; from db33c77dddc2ed2cff3061d0b096a9f5ab0c3647 before bda3c598ade6ea03884074b91e31608326684921; from db33c77dddc2ed2cff3061d0b096a9f5ab0c3647 before a4cb830e0b55ac76c849fd7840afb251f4c028fa; from db33c77dddc2ed2cff3061d0b096a9f5ab0c3647 before 68c5a2a19987c035eb129e627e579adafb04f637; from db33c77dddc2ed2cff3061d0b096a9f5ab0c3647 before 83534891c058ed71e251135072640911670869aa; from db33c77dddc2ed2cff3061d0b096a9f5ab0c3647 before 6744ab60dfac55d1df5733960aad5be300984301; from db33c77dddc2ed2cff3061d0b096a9f5ab0c3647 before f1ca750c0510bdbb504bf084d2f196ef2af92ea6; from db33c77dddc2ed2cff3061d0b096a9f5ab0c3647 before 609c5b04a28dc1b0f3af6a7bc93055135b2d2059
CNA record

References

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