Bug 2554920 (CVE-2026-98601)

Summary: CVE-2026-98601 kernel: Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: validate device-supplied DMA indices
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Intel Bluetooth PCIe driver. The driver fails to validate index values provided by the hardware device through Direct Memory Access (DMA). A malicious or compromised PCIe device could supply out-of-range indices to trigger an out-of-bounds memory dereference or an infinite loop, resulting in a system crash and Denial of Service (DoS).
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:32:41 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: validate device-supplied DMA indices

In btintel_pcie_msix_rx_handle(), the driver processes RX completion
descriptors (urbd1) written by the PCIe device into DMA-coherent memory.
urbd1->frbd_tag (a 16-bit field fully controlled by the device firmware
via DMA) is used directly as an array index into rxq->bufs[] without any
bounds check. rxq->bufs[] has only BTINTEL_PCIE_RX_DESCS_COUNT (64)
entries, while frbd_tag can be any value 0-65535. A malicious or
malfunctioning device can write an out-of-range frbd_tag, causing the
driver to dereference an out-of-bounds data_buf pointer.

Additionally, cr_hia is read from a DMA-shared index array also writable
by the device; if the device sets cr_hia >= rxq->count, the while-loop
never terminates because cr_tia is wrapped via modulo rxq->count and can
never equal an out-of-range cr_hia.

Add bounds validation for cr_hia and frbd_tag in the RX path, and cr_hia
in the TX path. Log invalid values with bt_dev_err before returning.
Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-10-20 15:29:42 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-98601.mbox