Bug 2554834 (CVE-2026-98460)

Summary: CVE-2026-98460 kernel: Bluetooth: hci_sock: reject out-of-range OCF values
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth subsystem. This flaw allows a local, unprivileged user to bypass security restrictions and send unauthorized commands directly to the Bluetooth hardware. The vulnerability exists because the Host Controller Interface (HCI) raw socket improperly filters command identifiers, masking out-of-range values instead of rejecting them, which causes restricted commands to be erroneously accepted as allowlisted ones.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:21:50 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_sock: reject out-of-range OCF values

The raw HCI socket security filter has 128 OCF bits per supported OGF,
but masks the 10-bit OCF with 127 before looking up the command. An
unprivileged socket can therefore submit a reserved OCF that aliases an
allowlisted command modulo 128.

A conforming controller should reject reserved opcodes. Nevertheless,
the security decision must apply to the opcode that will actually be
sent, especially since controller-specific behavior is outside the host
stack's control.

Reject OCF values that cannot be represented by the security filter
instead of aliasing them onto an unrelated command.