# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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-2026-98602"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:19:14.606Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:22:29.455Z"
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-2026-98602"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98602.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98602"
title: "Bluetooth: bnep: fix out-of-bounds reads on short RX/TX frames and control fallthrough"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: bnep: fix out-of-bounds reads on short RX/TX frames and control fallthrough\n\nFix multiple out-of-bounds reads in Bluetooth BNEP frame processing:\n\n1. In bnep_rx_frame() and bnep_ctrl_frame() (net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c),\n   use pskb_may_pull() to verify the BNEP header, control type byte,\n   filter count, and extension headers exist before reading them, and\n   return 0 after handling BNEP_CONTROL instead of falling through to\n   Ethernet frame submission when no extension headers follow.\n2. In bnep_net_xmit() (net/bluetooth/bnep/netdev.c), verify skb-\u003elen \u003e=\n   ETH_HLEN with pskb_may_pull() before reading the 14-byte Ethernet\n   header to prevent an out-of-bounds heap read and infoleak on short\n   AF_PACKET TX frames."
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