# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43020"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T14:15:23.699Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:16:09.294Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
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-2026-43020"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43020.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43020"
title: "Bluetooth: MGMT: validate LTK enc_size on load"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: MGMT: validate LTK enc_size on load\n\nLoad Long Term Keys stores the user-provided enc_size and later uses\nit to size fixed-size stack operations when replying to LE LTK\nrequests. An enc_size larger than the 16-byte key buffer can therefore\noverflow the reply stack buffer.\n\nReject oversized enc_size values while validating the management LTK\nrecord so invalid keys never reach the stored key state."
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