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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53253" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:44.612Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:57:31.739Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z" 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-2026-53253" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53253.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53253" title: "Bluetooth: bnep: reject short frames before parsing" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: bnep: reject short frames before parsing\n\nA BNEP peer can send a short BNEP SDU. bnep_rx_frame() reads the\npacket type byte immediately and, for control packets, reads the control\nopcode and setup UUID-size byte before proving that those bytes are\npresent. bnep_rx_control() also dereferences the control opcode without\nrejecting an empty control payload.\n\nUse skb_pull_data() for the fixed fields in bnep_rx_frame() so a NULL\nreturn gates each dereference. Split the control handler so the frame\npath can pass an opcode that has already been pulled, and keep the\nbyte-buffer wrapper for extension control payloads.\n\nFor BNEP_SETUP_CONN_REQ, name the UUID-size byte before pulling the\nsetup payload. struct bnep_setup_conn_req carries destination and source\nservice UUIDs after that byte, each uuid_size bytes, so the parser now\ndocuments that tuple explicitly instead of leaving the pull length as an\nopaque multiplication.\n\nValidation reproduced this kernel report:\nKASAN slab-out-of-bounds in bnep_rx_frame.isra.0+0x130c/0x1790\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88800c0f7908 which belongs\nto the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8\nThe buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 1-byte\nregion [ffff88800c0f7908, ffff88800c0f7909)\nRead of size 1\nCall trace:\n dump_stack_lvl+0xb3/0x140 (?:?)\n print_address_description+0x57/0x3a0 (?:?)\n bnep_rx_frame+0x130c/0x1790 (net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c:306)\n print_report+0xb9/0x2b0 (?:?)\n __virt_addr_valid+0x1ba/0x3a0 (?:?)\n srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 (?:?)\n kasan_addr_to_slab+0x21/0x60 (?:?)\n kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 (?:?)\n process_one_work+0xfce/0x17e0 (kernel/workqueue.c:3200)\n worker_thread+0x65c/0xe40 (?:?)\n __kthread_parkme+0x184/0x230 (?:?)\n kthread+0x35e/0x470 (?:?)\n _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x28/0x50 (?:?)\n ret_from_fork+0x586/0x870 (?:?)\n __switch_to+0x74f/0xdc0 (?:?)\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 (?:?)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ef2ea86c82b2615902d085cd5a586fe9f58994f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b83afb19293e4de700edae306115f18966dc4f9"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"691f14b6a48b637655755134f1e551c7c6fedc2e"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d76dec1a37122bc16d83d059c08c0512ea8de909"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c893e17d2809ec9c4b3f1cdd5847cecbc27a311b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"be837cd09897e9e6e1958174501d467bdcbcc2bc"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6770d3a8acdf9151769180cc3710346c4cfbe6f0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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