CVE-2026-46123

Bluetooth: virtio_bt: clamp rx length before skb_put

High · published May 28, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

Bluetooth: virtio_bt: clamp rx length before skb_put

virtbt_rx_work() calls skb_put(skb, len) where len comes directly

from virtqueue_get_buf() with no validation against the buffer we

posted to the device. The RX skb is allocated in virtbt_add_inbuf()

and exposed to virtio as exactly 1000 bytes via sg_init_one().

Checking len against skb_tailroom(skb) is not sufficient because

alloc_skb() can leave more tailroom than the 1000 bytes actually

handed to the device. A malicious or buggy backend can therefore

report used.len between 1001 and skb_tailroom(skb), causing skb_put()

to include uninitialized kernel heap bytes that were never written by

the device.

The same path also accepts len == 0, in which case skb_put(skb, 0)

leaves the skb empty but virtbt_rx_handle() still reads the pkt_type

byte from skb->data, consuming uninitialized memory.

Define VIRTBT_RX_BUF_SIZE once and reuse it in alloc_skb() and

sg_init_one(), and gate virtbt_rx_work() on that same constant so

the bound checked matches the buffer actually exposed to the device.

Reject used.len == 0 in the same gate so an empty completion can

no longer reach virtbt_rx_handle().

Use bt_dev_err_ratelimited() because the length value comes from an

untrusted backend that can otherwise flood the kernel log.

Same class of bug as commit c04db81cd028 ("net/9p: Fix buffer

overflow in USB transport layer"), which hardened the USB 9p

transport against unchecked device-reported length.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00142 · 3.2th percentile
Published
2026-05-28T09:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 MAY 09:35Z
    Bluetooth: virtio_bt: clamp rx length before skb_put
    cvelistv5