Vulnerability in Linux

[ Description ]Official description

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.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• BSI CERT-Bund18 Oct 2026WID-SEC-2026-4019

  Linux Kernel: Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German

  CVE-2026-98866CVE-2026-98624CVE-2026-98745+326 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• git.kernel.org/stable/c/40eb4b18ad167b63644c27fa67a7400ba050379a
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/673f707518e8ef03306f84c512cb160971f175fe
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbc7de352f3f3864369c904aac944c7de84c6e7b
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/be58b239d2be5da7a7fac11d3eb8bf75dce6511b
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/c42ce5373405ca93946311652c51ccfeb1c2d913