CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-46123
7.7 HIGH
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- Status
- Undergoing Analysis
- Published
- 2026-05-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-24
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: virtio_bt: clamp rx length before skb_put
virtbt_rx_work() calls skb_put(skb, len) where len comes directly
from virtqueue_get_buf() with no validation against the buffer we
posted to the device. The RX skb is allocated in virtbt_add_inbuf()
and exposed to virtio as exactly 1000 bytes via sg_init_one().
Checking len against skb_tailroom(skb) is not sufficient because
alloc_skb() can leave more tailroom than the 1000 bytes actually
handed to the device. A malicious or buggy backend can therefore
report used.len between 1001 and skb_tailroom(skb), causing skb_put()
to include uninitialized kernel heap bytes that were never written by
the device.
The same path also accepts len == 0, in which case skb_put(skb, 0)
leaves the skb empty but virtbt_rx_handle() still reads the pkt_type
byte from skb->data, consuming uninitialized memory.
Define VIRTBT_RX_BUF_SIZE once and reuse it in alloc_skb() and
sg_init_one(), and gate virtbt_rx_work() on that same constant so
the bound checked matches the buffer actually exposed to the device.
Reject used.len == 0 in the same gate so an empty completion can
no longer reach virtbt_rx_handle().
Use bt_dev_err_ratelimited() because the length value comes from an
untrusted backend that can otherwise flood the kernel log.
Same class of bug as commit c04db81cd028 ("net/9p: Fix buffer
overflow in USB transport layer"), which hardened the USB 9p
transport against unchecked device-reported length.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.78 < 5.15.209)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0.8 < 6.1)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.1 < 6.1.175)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.140)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.88)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.30)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
• linux linux kernel 7.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21bd244b6de5d2fe1063c23acc93fbdd2b20d112 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4236e55b2d9d1ffd3b4bdf8ebbb86e5a0a526b4a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c1730099a6fc18b183bd6c1adad3b54adcaeda9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b40cdd1b1370d76e9e760af4490cb4a351cceead Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6b4296f170d949ebba937cf6a3f247ec9550d2c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed41c81d30b211a671667259c3b5feeba0e062d5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd91fa2678ab603dfb285416c1cf3843d7be1e41 Patch