In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: HIDP: reject frames without a transaction header hidp_re…
CVE-2026-74508 · 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: 2.6.12
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: HIDP: reject frames without a transaction header
hidp_recv_ctrl_frame() and hidp_recv_intr_frame() read skb->data[0]
before checking that the L2CAP SDU contains a transaction header. A
connected HIDP peer can send an empty basic-mode SDU and make both paths
use an uninitialized byte from skb tailroom.
KMSAN reports the use in hidp_session_run(), with the uninitialized value
originating in __alloc_skb() through vhci_write(). The control path
produces two reports and the interrupt path produces one.
The byte can also be controlled by a malformed lower-layer packet. If an
HCI ACL packet contains an L2CAP PDU with a declared zero-length payload
followed by an extra 0x15 byte, l2cap_recv_acldata() reduces skb->len to
the declared PDU length before dispatch. The current HIDP path nevertheless
consumes the extra byte as HIDP_TRANS_HID_CONTROL |
HIDP_CTRL_VIRTUAL_CABLE_UNPLUG and terminates the HIDP session. With this
change, the same packet is discarded and a subsequent feature report
request succeeds.
Pull the transaction header with skb_pull_data() and discard frames that
do not contain it.
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/238c333bc4b3f245c626632e8bfa3c9dab97f51b
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/24c64ccd5c1fc9934b427335b0d976c7f2b1a7d8
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ebf63aa557a69990b4e9ea22be224d58aabce96
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/46ca5ab39737d7c6f9ca77ecf714cdcfa6caaeec
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/47778d2c2087b5d192398f6fddf692d16a5431cf
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/567a2a0a633f2ea5fdccaf3517c09f22c9d860c7
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/854194494a6f726a60b90b76059148bf08df023d
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/97b61241ab45bfa5b0526cb0f3978942493bc811
Merged from NVD. Last updated 24 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON