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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98732 (CVE-2026-98732)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-10-18 16:17 – Updated: 2026-10-30 19:02 – Source website

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btintel: fix buffer over-read in btintel_hw_error() The "Exception info %s" print uses skb->data + 1, but the 12-byte payload is not guaranteed to be NUL-terminated and can be read past its end. Bound the print with "%.*s" and skb->len - 1.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-98732	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98732	REPORT
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbc7de352f3f38643…	REPORT
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/673f707518e8ef033…	REPORT
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c42ce5373405ca939…	REPORT
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40eb4b18ad167b636…	REPORT

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CVE-2026-98732 (GCVE-0-2026-98732)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-18 15:47 – Updated: 2026-10-30 12:39

Title

Bluetooth: btintel: fix buffer over-read in btintel_hw_error()

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/162bb126d5c07a015…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d850e34c73175f5d7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fa8630506f363749…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be58b239d2be5da7a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbc7de352f3f38643…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c42ce5373405ca939…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/673f707518e8ef033…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40eb4b18ad167b636…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 , < 162bb126d5c07a0150a171f8f3f1996e445922b3 (git) Affected: 973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 , < d850e34c73175f5d7860b17f4810fcb6e5ab8727 (git) Affected: 973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 , < 0fa8630506f36374911772647bc5bcfeb47c5195 (git) Affected: 973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 , < be58b239d2be5da7a7fac11d3eb8bf75dce6511b (git) Affected: 973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 , < bbc7de352f3f3864369c904aac944c7de84c6e7b (git) Affected: 973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 , < c42ce5373405ca93946311652c51ccfeb1c2d913 (git) Affected: 973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 , < 673f707518e8ef03306f84c512cb160971f175fe (git) Affected: 973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 , < 40eb4b18ad167b63644c27fa67a7400ba050379a (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.3 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.3 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.273 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.224 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.191 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.113 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.56 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.10 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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