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CVE record · CVE-2026-98461

Bluetooth: hci_sock: validate event length before filtering

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0022 · 12th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:15 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 39e99d85071bca0feeec3164a9437ca1bff297fc git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before ebdd49cec380731844ed9df4092a29a014623df4 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 2501a3b7b7144d1d11939b355a48ed01f83d0c62 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before dca25c204f71be0556a15177dbe037237ac43e5e git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 3976bbcd43b9b94c53ac9b0fd28888011588f4cc git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before f894f6292d5122cd62d30600736b4a0ae79f7770 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 1a92763c2ba721bf113cd83f913fe8c511b4a4dc git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before b0a6cf99afd57a39598b1beca0e86ef5004980de git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.12
  • unaffected before 2.6.12 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.271 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.222 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.55 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.9 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98461
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
18 Oct 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0022, the 12th percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 18 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.