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CVE-2026-90251 Affecting linux-6.12 package, versions <6.12.111-1~deb12u1

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LINUX612-20507210
  • published5 Oct 2026
  • disclosed17 Sept 2026
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Introduced: 17 Sep 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 linux-6.12 to version 6.12.111-1~deb12u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-6.12 package and not the linux-6.12 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

Bluetooth: MSFT: validate evt_prefix_len against the response length

read_supported_features() only checks that the response covers the fixed part of struct msft_rp_read_supported_features, which is 11 bytes:

if (skb-&gt;len &lt; sizeof(*rp)) {
    bt_dev_err(hdev, &#34;MSFT supported features length mismatch&#34;);
    goto failed;
}

evt_prefix[] is a flexible array member and rp->evt_prefix_len is an unvalidated u8 taken straight out of that response, so

msft-&gt;evt_prefix = kmemdup(rp-&gt;evt_prefix, rp-&gt;evt_prefix_len,
               GFP_KERNEL);

copies up to 255 bytes from a reply that may have carried none of them. What is copied is data the controller never sent, and it is then used to match incoming vendor events in msft_vendor_evt().

This is not an out-of-bounds access. An skb data allocation always has at least SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)) bytes past the payload, which is more than the 255 byte maximum, so the read stays inside the allocation and KASAN does not report it. It is still a read of bytes the host was never given, with the length fully controlled by the controller.

Reject a response that is too short for the prefix it declares.

Verified with an emulated controller over /dev/vhci on a KASAN kernel, with vhci made to advertise an MSFT opcode the way btintel, btqca, btmtk and btrtl do unconditionally. A reply of exactly 11 bytes declaring evt_prefix_len = 255 reaches kmemdup and copies 255 bytes ("skb->len=11 evt_prefix_len=255", with the copied buffer dumped); since the reply ends at the fixed part, all 255 come from past the end of the response. No KASAN report is produced, as expected from the allocation slack described above. With this patch the response is rejected with "MSFT event prefix length mismatch" and msft->evt_prefix is left unset.