Not yet scoredPublished Oct 18, 2026

CVE-2026-98819Bluetooth: btintel: validate DDC record lengths

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 1:23 AM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btintel: validate DDC record lengths Parse DDC record lengths in unsigned storage so 0xFF does not wrap. Reject records smaller than the mandatory three-byte header, records exceeding U8_MAX, and records exceeding remaining firmware bytes before issuing Intel_Write_DDC. This issue was reported by Claude Mythos.

CVSS: Not yet scored
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Received
Record last updated: Oct 21, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 18, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	145f2368c5fd7962e37315ccc092670743019d08 builds before 7df748aa9f9ecab514e5989ed89c9ba35b6e5574; from 145f2368c5fd7962e37315ccc092670743019d08 before 069031f569f1681f17e863f48c221a6091b47850; from 145f2368c5fd7962e37315ccc092670743019d08 before b0fce76873a5e6a6820354409b26693ac5f8b251; from 145f2368c5fd7962e37315ccc092670743019d08 before f3617369fbb30a4d2e54841ab8e92ca4fa211e56; from 145f2368c5fd7962e37315ccc092670743019d08 before c9c15d4d8956df8c564f7c210e4dc5b9b820d97a	CNA record

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7df748aa9f9ecab514e5989ed89c9ba35b6e5574
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/069031f569f1681f17e863f48c221a6091b47850
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0fce76873a5e6a6820354409b26693ac5f8b251
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3617369fbb30a4d2e54841ab8e92ca4fa211e56
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9c15d4d8956df8c564f7c210e4dc5b9b820d97a

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