Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2026

CVE-2026-98819

Description

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

Bluetooth: btintel: validate DDC record lengths

Parse DDC record lengths in unsigned storage so 0xFF does not wrap. Reject records smaller than the mandatory three-byte header, records exceeding U8_MAX, and records exceeding remaining firmware bytes before issuing Intel_Write_DDC.

This issue was reported by Claude Mythos.

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Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-create

Patches

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/069031f569f1681f17e863f48c221a6091b47850nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0fce76873a5e6a6820354409b26693ac5f8b251nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9c15d4d8956df8c564f7c210e4dc5b9b820d97anvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3617369fbb30a4d2e54841ab8e92ca4fa211e56nvd

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