Bluetooth: bpa10x: avoid OOB read of revision string in bpa10x_setup()
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 4 without a fix
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: bpa10x: avoid OOB read of revision string in bpa10x_setup() bpa10x_setup() sends the vendor command 0xfc0e and passes the response to bt_dev_info() and hci_set_fw_info() as a "%s" string starting at skb->data + 1, without checking the length: bt_dev_info(hdev, "%s", (char *)(skb->data + 1)); hci_set_fw_info(hdev, "%s", skb->data + 1); A device that returns a one-byte response (status only) leaves skb->data + 1 past the end of the data, and the %s walk reads adjacent slab memory until it meets a NUL. The same happens when the payload is not NUL-terminated within skb->len. The out-of-bounds bytes end up in the kernel log and the firmware-info debugfs file. Print the revision string with a bounded "%.*s" limited to skb->len - 1 instead. This keeps the string readable for well-behaved devices while never reading past the received data, and does not fail setup, so a device returning a short or unterminated response keeps working.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.261, 5.15.212, 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet |
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-64549
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4pq4-7m8r-frpc
- 2026-10-16 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-16 CVSS score changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-27 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-11-06 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1813add71e386f77b3040e6c8dc9b7b3ff965a6c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd56c23f1f8681a2857ee924a8bd3abf87c8913b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a64f39ebe1bacd9004a62eceadac0b122ec3cc2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f80b4afe893dffa9fabdbf80fb4d6782b24a6793
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b4008dda1d0c6e598d7865631ad4eda63a560f0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfc9e7be289df11e8e38c98cd78019d67fdd0bd5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8e169d308775039200bb9c905c7ce420db6e8c5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd068ef044128db655f48323a4acfd5907e04903
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Sources
- CVE-2026-64549 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-64549 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4pq4-7m8r-frpc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-64549 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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