# 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-2026-46186"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:36:40.349Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-14T18:01:09.675Z"
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-2026-46186"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46186.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46186"
title: "Bluetooth: virtio_bt: validate rx pkt_type header length"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: virtio_bt: validate rx pkt_type header length\n\nvirtbt_rx_handle() reads the leading pkt_type byte from the RX skb\nand forwards the remainder to hci_recv_frame() for every\nevent/ACL/SCO/ISO type, without checking that the remaining payload\nis at least the fixed HCI header for that type.\n\nAfter the preceding patch bounds the backend-supplied used.len to\n[1, VIRTBT_RX_BUF_SIZE], a one-byte completion still reaches\nhci_recv_frame() with skb-\u003elen already pulled to 0. If the byte\nhappened to be HCI_ACLDATA_PKT, the ACL-vs-ISO classification\nfast-path in hci_dev_classify_pkt_type() dereferences\nhci_acl_hdr(skb)-\u003ehandle whenever the HCI device has an active\nCIS_LINK, BIS_LINK, or PA_LINK connection, reading two bytes of\nuninitialized RX-buffer data. The same hazard exists for every\npacket type the driver accepts because none of the switch cases in\nvirtbt_rx_handle() check skb-\u003elen against the per-type minimum HCI\nheader size before handing the frame to the core.\n\nAfter stripping pkt_type, require skb-\u003elen to cover the fixed\nheader size for the selected type (event 2, ACL 4, SCO 3, ISO 4)\nbefore calling hci_recv_frame(); drop ratelimited otherwise.\nUnknown pkt_type values still take the original kfree_skb() default\npath.\n\nUse bt_dev_err_ratelimited() because both the length and pkt_type\nvalues come from an untrusted backend that can otherwise flood the\nkernel log."
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