# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

## Instructions for the operator's AI
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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-2026-68479"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:51:34.106Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T21:09:12.177Z"
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-2026-68479"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68479.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68479"
title: "Bluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: btrtl: validate firmware patch bounds\n\nrtlbt_parse_firmware() copies patch_length - 4 bytes before appending the\nfirmware version. A malformed firmware patch shorter than the version field\ncan make this subtraction underflow and turn the copy into an oversized\nread and write during Bluetooth setup.\n\nThe existing patch_offset + patch_length check can also wrap on 32-bit\narchitectures. Validate the patch length and range without arithmetic\noverflow before allocating or copying the patch."
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