Answer in brief
CVE-2026-90251 records a Unknown severity vulnerability in Bluetooth: MSFT: validate evt_prefix_len against the response length. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=145373cb1b1fcdba2059e945d0aa2613af2e84d1 <dce783a10e70f013410f5b583a29fc3286899629 || >=145373cb1b1fcdba2059e945d0aa2613af2e84d1 <21f539c59ed330b671d75fd119c5f659ff92fbd1 || >=145373cb1b1fcdba2059e945d0aa2613af2e84d1 <52b1b3b4d403cbda1b70ce2385e1a71f166a87ba || >=145373cb1b1fcdba2059e945d0aa2613af2e84d1 <e804d54a5a99d99250490e68093eff7190472e6f || >=145373cb1b1fcdba2059e945d0aa2613af2e84d1 <620c2631cff490d14d0b9d56f185cc745806d6d7 || >=145373cb1b1fcdba2059e945d0aa2613af2e84d1 <7c2658023d839b651368a5b8b781bf9a817647cb || >=145373cb1b1fcdba2059e945d0aa2613af2e84d1 <63562cfaea8a650fdb31ee8de21c32e3600be642 || >=145373cb1b1fcdba2059e945d0aa2613af2e84d1 <0079e1a944634ab2dc1c7cdec1144486d096407e | dce783a10e70f013410f5b583a29fc3286899629, 21f539c59ed330b671d75fd119c5f659ff92fbd1, 52b1b3b4d403cbda1b70ce2385e1a71f166a87ba, e804d54a5a99d99250490e68093eff7190472e6f, 620c2631cff490d14d0b9d56f185cc745806d6d7, 7c2658023d839b651368a5b8b781bf9a817647cb, 63562cfaea8a650fdb31ee8de21c32e3600be642, 0079e1a944634ab2dc1c7cdec1144486d096407e |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 5.8 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Sep 17, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 17, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 17, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: MSFT: validate evt_prefix_len against the response length read_supported_features() only checks that the response covers the fixed part of struct msft_rp_read_supported_features, which is 11 bytes: if (skb->len < sizeof(*rp)) { bt_dev_err(hdev, "MSFT supported features length mismatch"); goto failed; } evt_prefix[] is a flexible array member and rp->evt_prefix_len is an unvalidated u8 taken straight out of that response, so msft->evt_prefix = kmemdup(rp->evt_prefix, rp->evt_prefix_len, GFP_KERNEL); copies up to 255 bytes from a reply that may have carried none of them. What is copied is data the controller never sent, and it is then used to match incoming vendor events in msft_vendor_evt(). This is not an out-of-bounds access. An skb data allocation always has at least SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)) bytes past the payload, which is more than the 255 byte maximum, so the read stays inside the allocation and KASAN does not report it. It is still a read of bytes the host was never given, with the length fully controlled by the controller. Reject a response that is too short for the prefix it declares. Verified with an emulated controller over /dev/vhci on a KASAN kernel, with vhci made to advertise an MSFT opcode the way btintel, btqca, btmtk and btrtl do unconditionally. A reply of exactly 11 bytes declaring evt_prefix_len = 255 reaches kmemdup and copies 255 bytes ("skb->len=11 evt_prefix_len=255", with the copied buffer dumped); since the reply ends at the fixed part, all 255 come from past the end of the response. No KASAN report is produced, as expected from the allocation slack described above. With this patch the response is rejected with "MSFT event prefix length mismatch" and msft->evt_prefix is left unset.
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