In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix u8 overflow
By keep sending L2CAP_CONF_REQ packets, chan->num_conf_rsp increases
multiple times and eventually it will wrap around the maximum number
(i.e., 255).
This patch prevents this by adding a boundary check with
L2CAP_MAX_CONF_RSP
Btmon log:
Bluetooth monitor ver 5.64
= Note: Linux version 6.1.0-rc2 (x86_64) 0.264594
= Note: Bluetooth subsystem version 2.22 0.264636
@ MGMT Open: btmon (privileged) version 1.22 {0x0001} 0.272191
= New Index: 00:00:00:00:00:00 (Primary,Virtual,hci0) [hci0] 13.877604
@ RAW Open: 9496 (privileged) version 2.22 {0x0002} 13.890741
= Open Index: 00:00:00:00:00:00 [hci0] 13.900426
(...)
> ACL Data RX: Handle 200 flags 0x00 dlen 1033 #32 [hci0] 14.273106
invalid packet size (12 != 1033)
08 00 01 00 02 01 04 00 01 10 ff ff ............
> ACL Data RX: Handle 200 flags 0x00 dlen 1547 #33 [hci0] 14.273561
invalid packet size (14 != 1547)
0a 00 01 00 04 01 06 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 ........@.....
> ACL Data RX: Handle 200 flags 0x00 dlen 2061 #34 [hci0] 14.274390
invalid packet size (16 != 2061)
0c 00 01 00 04 01 08 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 ........@.......
> ACL Data RX: Handle 200 flags 0x00 dlen 2061 #35 [hci0] 14.274932
invalid packet size (16 != 2061)
0c 00 01 00 04 01 08 00 40 00 00 00 07 00 03 00 ........@.......
= bluetoothd: Bluetooth daemon 5.43 14.401828
> ACL Data RX: Handle 200 flags 0x00 dlen 1033 #36 [hci0] 14.275753
invalid packet size (12 != 1033)
08 00 01 00 04 01 04 00 40 00 00 00 ........@...
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it