HIGH
bluetooth BIG Overflow
CVE-2026-31772
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
KernelScan AI8.1HIGH
01Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix stack buffer overflow in hci_le_big_create_sync hci_le_big_create_sync() uses DEFINE_FLEX to allocate a struct hci_cp_le_big_create_sync on the stack with room for 0x11 (17) BIS entries. However, conn->num_bis can hold up to HCI_MAX_ISO_BIS (31) entries — validated against ISO_MAX_NUM_BIS (0x1f) in the caller hci_conn_big_create_sync(). When conn->num_bis is between 18 and 31, the memcpy that copies conn->bis into cp->bis writes up to 14 bytes past the stack buffer, corrupting adjacent stack memory. This is trivially reproducible: binding an ISO socket with bc_num_bis = ISO_MAX_NUM_BIS (31) and calling listen() will eventually trigger hci_le_big_create_sync() from the HCI command sync worker, causing a KASAN-detectable stack-out-of-bounds write: BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in hci_le_big_create_sync+0x256/0x3b0 Write of size 31 at addr ffffc90000487b48 by task kworker/u9:0/71 Fix this by changing the DEFINE_FLEX count from the incorrect 0x11 to HCI_MAX_ISO_BIS, which matches the maximum number of BIS entries that conn->bis can actually carry.
02KernelScan AI Analysis
Risk summary
Attackers with low privileges can trigger a stack buffer overflow in the Bluetooth HCI sync subsystem by creating ISO sockets with excessive BIS entries, requiring Bluetooth to be enabled. This can lead to kernel memory corruption, privilege escalation, or system crashes.
Vulnerability analysis
The vulnerability occurs in hci_le_big_create_sync() where a stack-allocated flexible array structure is sized for only 17 BIS entries (0x11) but conn->num_bis can contain up to 31 entries (HCI_MAX_ISO_BIS). When memcpy copies conn->bis into the undersized buffer, it writes up to 14 bytes past the stack boundary, corrupting adjacent memory. The bug is easily triggered by binding an ISO socket with bc_num_bis=31 and calling listen(), which eventually invokes the vulnerable function from the HCI command sync worker. The fix increases the DEFINE_FLEX allocation size to HCI_MAX_ISO_BIS to match the actual maximum.
03Fix Versions
| Branch | Fixed in | Patch commit |
|---|---|---|
| 6.12 | 6.12.81 | f5d446624345 |
| 6.18 | 6.18.22 | aba0aea35401 |
| 6.19 | 6.19.12 | eaf32002ca7b |
| mainline | 7.0 | bc39a094730c |