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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64573" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-05T08:08:09.669Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:28:52.002Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64573" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64573.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64573" title: "Bluetooth: qca: fix NVM tag length underflow in TLV parser" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: qca: fix NVM tag length underflow in TLV parser\n\nIn the TLV_TYPE_NVM branch of qca_tlv_check_data() the tag loop bound is\n\"while (idx \u003c length - sizeof(struct tlv_type_nvm))\". \"length\" is a signed\nint from the firmware TLV header and sizeof(struct tlv_type_nvm) is a\nsize_t (12), so \"length\" is converted to size_t and any firmware-supplied\n\"length\" \u003c 12 makes the subtraction wrap to a huge value. The loop body\nthen reads a 12-byte struct tlv_type_nvm past the end of the short\nvmalloc'd firmware buffer (and the EDL_TAG_ID_* handlers can write past it).\n\nRewrite the bound as \"idx + sizeof(struct tlv_type_nvm) \u003c= length\"; both\noperands are non-negative, so it no longer underflows and a \"length\" too\nsmall for one record correctly skips the loop.\n\n BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in qca_download_firmware.isra.0 (drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c:421)\n Read of size 2 at addr ffffc900000e5004 by task kworker/u9:0/52\n Workqueue: hci0 hci_power_on\n Call Trace:\n ...\n kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595)\n qca_download_firmware.isra.0 (drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c:421 drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c:617)\n qca_uart_setup (drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c:948)\n qca_setup (drivers/bluetooth/hci_qca.c:2029)\n hci_uart_setup (drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c:438)\n hci_dev_open_sync (net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5227)\n hci_power_on (net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:920)\n process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3322)\n worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3486)\n kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)\n ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158)\n ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ed53949cc92e28aaa3463d246942bda1fbb7f307","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7ee11441d71ab036a705d110a415421f5a4a898"},{"version":"1caceadfb50432dbf6d808796cb6c34ebb6d662c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d34e537755d2f9eba2d4e54d70126f987ef20b4"},{"version":"427281f9498ed614f9aabc80e46ec077c487da6d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"70354dbb5f72d9a76da7b031de3cbaf6c7d8fc24"},{"version":"2e4edfa1e2bd821a317e7d006517dcf2f3fac68d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"59fd2f075bca94f030c7c78e94878ea0803d7690"},{"version":"2e4edfa1e2bd821a317e7d006517dcf2f3fac68d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a087ed960fce54e9302796229e9d545bbc9bcd4a"},{"version":"2e4edfa1e2bd821a317e7d006517dcf2f3fac68d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4fcfb5b2c736785464ff9745f94c6726c5ee2d85"},{"version":"2e4edfa1e2bd821a317e7d006517dcf2f3fac68d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c90164ca0f7036942ba088eb7ea8d3f6c2352020"},{"version":"02f05ed44b71152d5e11d29be28aed91c0489b4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.159","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.216"},{"version":"6.1.91","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.183"},{"version":"6.6.31","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.148"},{"version":"6.8.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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