{"id":"CVE-2026-98292","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: btmtksdio, btmtkuart: validate WMT event length before struct access\n\nbtmtksdio.c and btmtkuart.c cast a received WMT event straight to\nstruct btmtk_hci_wmt_…","summary":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: btmtksdio, btmtkuart: validate WMT event length before struct access\n\nbtmtksdio.c and btmtkuart.c cast a received WMT event straight to\nstruct btmtk_hci_wmt_…","severity":"medium","vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","affected":["Linux >= e0b67035a90b58d01f911fed77b6e3da153da66e < 5a5cfd8488c97e1b8939515429fe4c81e9f2df4f","Linux >= e0b67035a90b58d01f911fed77b6e3da153da66e < 8879e3e0a84a86954c855caceead4867e74a9a27","Linux 5.1"],"published":"2026-10-06","updated":"2026-10-06","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-06T09:18:19.603","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98292","references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a5cfd8488c97e1b8939515429fe4c81e9f2df4f","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8879e3e0a84a86954c855caceead4867e74a9a27","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-98292.json"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-98292"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2546425"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98292"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98292"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-98292.mbox"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org","csaf","vex","red-hat"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-06T08:50:17.418Z","cvss":5.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cvssSource":"vendor","cwe":["CWE-125"],"epss":0.00162,"epssPercentile":0.05373,"slug":"CVE-2026-98292","body":"## Overview\n\nIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: btmtksdio, btmtkuart: validate WMT event length before struct access\n\nbtmtksdio.c and btmtkuart.c cast a received WMT event straight to\nstruct btmtk_hci_wmt_evt and read its op/flag fields without checking\nthe event is long enough to contain them, unlike btmtk.c. The\nFUNC_CTRL case then further casts to struct btmtk_hci_wmt_evt_funcc\nand reads its 2-byte status field, again without a length check.\nFirmware that sends a short or malformed WMT event makes both drivers\nread past the end of the received SKB.\n\nMirror btmtk.c: validate the base WMT header with skb_pull_data()\nbefore touching any of its fields, and when a FUNC_CTRL event turns\nout to be the short, header-only form (a plain enable/disable ack\nwith no status word), decode the result from the header's own flag\nbyte instead (0 = success, otherwise failure).\n\nVerified setup on MT7920, MT7921, MT7922 and MT7925: no regression.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.\n\n## Vendor advisories\n\n- **Red Hat VEX** · Moderate · updated 2026-10-11 · [vex](https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-98292.json)","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":30,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":30.3,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[{"seq":219059,"id":"CVE-2026-98292","ts":1791707046676,"field":"cvss","old":null,"new":"5.5"},{"seq":219058,"id":"CVE-2026-98292","ts":1791707046676,"field":"severity","old":"none","new":"medium"}]}