GHSA-qwwx-92m3-hf86MediumCVSS 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: ISO: drop ISO_END...

Published
July 19, 2026
Last Modified
August 13, 2026

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📋 Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: ISO: drop ISO_END frames received without prior ISO_START

ISO data PDUs carry a packet-boundary flag indicating START, CONT, END or SINGLE. The ISO_CONT branch of iso_recv() guards against a missing ISO_START by checking conn->rx_len before touching conn->rx_skb, but ISO_END does not.

If a peer sends an ISO_END as the first packet on a fresh ISO connection, conn->rx_skb is still NULL and conn->rx_len is zero, so skb_put(conn->rx_skb, ...) dereferences NULL and oopses. For BIS, where receivers sync to a broadcaster without pairing, any broadcaster on the air can trigger this.

Mirror the ISO_CONT check at the top of ISO_END so a stray end fragment is logged and dropped instead of crashing the host.

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