CVE-2026-64403

Bluetooth: L2CAP: validate option length before reading conf opt value

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: July 25, 2026 at 08:50 AM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: L2CAP: validate option length before reading conf opt value l2cap_get_conf_opt() derives the option length from the attacker-controlled opt->len field and immediately dereferences opt->val (as u8, get_unaligned_le16() or get_unaligned_le32(), or a raw pointer for the default case) before any caller has confirmed that opt->len bytes are present in the buffer. The callers (l2cap_parse_conf_req(), l2cap_parse_conf_rsp() and l2cap_conf_rfc_get()) only detect a malformed option afterwards, once the running length has gone negative, by which point the out-of-bounds read has already executed. An existing post-hoc length check keeps the garbage value from being consumed, so this is not a data leak in the current control flow. It is still a validate-after-use ordering bug: up to 4 bytes are read past the end of the buffer before it is known to contain them, and it is fragile to future changes in the callers. Fix it at the source. Pass the end of the buffer into l2cap_get_conf_opt() and refuse to touch opt->val unless the full option (header + value) fits. Each caller computes an end pointer once before the loop and checks the return value directly instead of inferring the error from a negative length.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

3.16.66 ≤ v < 3.173.18.138 ≤ v < 3.194.14.110 ≤ v < 4.154.19.33 ≤ v < 4.204.4.178 ≤ v < 4.54.9.167 ≤ v < 4.105.0.6 ≤ v < 5.10.2615.11 ≤ v < 5.15.2125.16 ≤ v < 6.1.1786.13 ≤ v < 6.18.396.19 ≤ v < 7.1.46.2 ≤ v < 6.6.1456.7 ≤ v < 6.12.9615d6538a0d6e0f6de5116081a948cba7cc3e1d3d2b59d36f22622c92c0b06aee7571f0a86a2171883.16.663.18.1384.14.1104.19.334.4.1784.9.1675.0.67.27.2 rc17.2 rc278c2887130f1a7d1883195732be1b6cdab6674877c9cbd0b5e38a1672fcd137894ace3b042dfbf6999665dcf6ff803351b5e658f3a929cb498561e36a556547bae00528f24b42786b41a14047db14b84ac7c597c465eb09391e40febbe088bdad601080bade4560e4fea198866e033fe1c02f063d6d7db2e
Vendor states this is fixed in 687617555cedfb74c9e3cb85d759b908dcb17856 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6b47bdaacfd0045687880177e0987055d8f4765a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 73abbaf91aa33da87c008fb62c148ade561bb606 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7d871e969b941ce25653f7716203a0ea4d07ad4b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 98d93c226bdfaa79bbdd86981921d7f106374225 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 996d3da39899aceb8f4910911a3f19a45a7d9d1b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cca81b4bc672604a84f6d224a55cc77ec7dee619 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f70d4aa88068096f35d73e3a05eff33c0a16b9cd (fixed)
Affected range stops below 3.17, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 3.19, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.10, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.15, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.20, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.5, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.261 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.212 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.178 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.96 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.39 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.145 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

7.1HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476CWE-125

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