In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci: validate codec capability element length Read Local…
CVE-2026-74300 · published 15 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 8.8 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 5.16
How to check
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How to fix
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- Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
- If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.
The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci: validate codec capability element length
Read Local Codec Capabilities returns a sequence of capability elements.
Each element starts with a one-byte length followed by that many payload
bytes.
hci_read_codec_capabilities() checks that the skb contains the length
byte, but then validates only caps->len against the remaining skb
length. A malformed controller response with one remaining byte and
caps->len set to one passes that check even though the element needs two
bytes. The parser then records a two-byte capability and copies one
byte beyond the advertised response payload into the codec list.
Validate the full element size, including the length byte, before adding
it to the accumulated capability length. This preserves all well-formed
capability elements and drops only truncated controller responses.
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/290b36f9d1eb9b2f72b40d826f26b4a182ab15f7
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bc16db0f11918e07edf9fdcda4a30cf4c9df45c
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c38fbcdc407925c7088f7e5f11c1fff73d2d35a2
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec4d352747a62c1082f16c11a74b37d6eb85a5a3
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2ad01f55e07f9531efcea736087e6b8658a3440
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc97fc8cf7f53fd3619db63e09050d20a3a0c4b1
Merged from NVD. Last updated 23 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON