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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98601"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:19:13.760Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:22:28.028Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98601"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98601.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98601"
title: "Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: validate device-supplied DMA indices"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: btintel_pcie: validate device-supplied DMA indices\n\nIn btintel_pcie_msix_rx_handle(), the driver processes RX completion\ndescriptors (urbd1) written by the PCIe device into DMA-coherent memory.\nurbd1-\u003efrbd_tag (a 16-bit field fully controlled by the device firmware\nvia DMA) is used directly as an array index into rxq-\u003ebufs[] without any\nbounds check. rxq-\u003ebufs[] has only BTINTEL_PCIE_RX_DESCS_COUNT (64)\nentries, while frbd_tag can be any value 0-65535. A malicious or\nmalfunctioning device can write an out-of-range frbd_tag, causing the\ndriver to dereference an out-of-bounds data_buf pointer.\n\nAdditionally, cr_hia is read from a DMA-shared index array also writable\nby the device; if the device sets cr_hia \u003e= rxq-\u003ecount, the while-loop\nnever terminates because cr_tia is wrapped via modulo rxq-\u003ecount and can\nnever equal an out-of-range cr_hia.\n\nAdd bounds validation for cr_hia and frbd_tag in the RX path, and cr_hia\nin the TX path. Log invalid values with bt_dev_err before returning."
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