# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31498"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-22T13:54:19.714Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:05:11.217Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31498"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31498.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31498"
title: "Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix ERTM re-init and zero pdu_len infinite loop"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: L2CAP: Fix ERTM re-init and zero pdu_len infinite loop\n\nl2cap_config_req() processes CONFIG_REQ for channels in BT_CONNECTED\nstate to support L2CAP reconfiguration (e.g. MTU changes). However,\nsince both CONF_INPUT_DONE and CONF_OUTPUT_DONE are already set from\nthe initial configuration, the reconfiguration path falls through to\nl2cap_ertm_init(), which re-initializes tx_q, srej_q, srej_list, and\nretrans_list without freeing the previous allocations and sets\nchan-\u003esdu to NULL without freeing the existing skb. This leaks all\npreviously allocated ERTM resources.\n\nAdditionally, l2cap_parse_conf_req() does not validate the minimum\nvalue of remote_mps derived from the RFC max_pdu_size option. A zero\nvalue propagates to l2cap_segment_sdu() where pdu_len becomes zero,\ncausing the while loop to never terminate since len is never\ndecremented, exhausting all available memory.\n\nFix the double-init by skipping l2cap_ertm_init() and\nl2cap_chan_ready() when the channel is already in BT_CONNECTED state,\nwhile still allowing the reconfiguration parameters to be updated\nthrough l2cap_parse_conf_req(). Also add a pdu_len zero check in\nl2cap_segment_sdu() as a safeguard."
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