# 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-2026-46138"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:35:54.467Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:36:52.126Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-46138"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46138.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46138"
title: "Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix OOB read and infinite loop in hci_le_create_big_complete_evt"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_event: Fix OOB read and infinite loop in hci_le_create_big_complete_evt\n\nhci_le_create_big_complete_evt() iterates over BT_BOUND connections for\na BIG handle using a while loop, accessing ev-\u003ebis_handle[i++] on each\niteration.  However, there is no check that i stays within ev-\u003enum_bis\nbefore the array access.\n\nWhen a controller sends a LE_Create_BIG_Complete event with fewer\nbis_handle entries than there are BT_BOUND connections for that BIG,\nor with num_bis=0, the loop reads beyond the valid bis_handle[] flex\narray into adjacent heap memory.  Since the out-of-bounds values\ntypically exceed HCI_CONN_HANDLE_MAX (0x0EFF), hci_conn_set_handle()\nrejects them and the connection remains in BT_BOUND state.  The same\nconnection is then found again by hci_conn_hash_lookup_big_state(),\ncreating an infinite loop with hci_dev_lock held.\n\nFix this by terminating the BIG if in case not all BIS could be setup\nproperly."
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