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CVE-2026-98602

Status: ReceivedUnscored—
Severity—Unscored
Exploitation probability0.21 %higher than 11% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: bnep: fix out-of-bounds reads on short RX/TX frames and control fallthrough

Fix multiple out-of-bounds reads in Bluetooth BNEP frame processing:

Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report
1. In bnep_rx_frame() and bnep_ctrl_frame() (net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c),
   use pskb_may_pull() to verify the BNEP header, control type byte,
   filter count, and extension headers exist before reading them, and
   return 0 after handling BNEP_CONTROL instead of falling through to
   Ethernet frame submission when no extension headers follow.
2. In bnep_net_xmit() (net/bluetooth/bnep/netdev.c), verify skb->len >=
   ETH_HLEN with pskb_may_pull() before reading the 14-byte Ethernet
   header to prevent an out-of-bounds heap read and infoleak on short
   AF_PACKET TX frames.

CVSS

NVD hasn't assigned a CVSS score to this CVE (common since the April 2026 policy change).

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.21 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
11
Score date
10/20/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.

Linux — Linux KernelAI

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