CVE-2026-98461

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

Bluetooth: hci sock: validate event length before filtering

is filtered packet() reads the event code from skb->data[0] without first checking that the skb is nonempty. When an opcode filter is configured, it also reads the command opcode at offsets 3 or 4 without checking that a Command Complete or Command Status event is long enough.

hci send to sock() invokes the filter before hci event packet() validates the event header. A malformed event supplied by a controller or a vhci device can therefore cause an out-of-bounds read.

Keep the unmasked event code for the opcode checks. The masked value is needed for the 64-bit event bitmap, but using it to identify command events aliases event codes above 0x3f. In particular, Synchronous Train Complete (0x4f) was treated as Command Status (0x0f) even though its payload has no opcode.

Reject actual command events that are too short for the field being inspected. A truncated command event cannot match a configured opcode.