# Bluetooth: btintel: fix buffer over-read in btintel_hw_error()

CVE record · `CVE-2026-98732`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-98732`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** No CVSS score
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Linux
- **Technologies:** [Linux kernel](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/linux-kernel.md)
- **Published:** 18 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 30 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:47 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

- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 to before 162bb126d5c07a0150a171f8f3f1996e445922b3` (git)
  - affected: `973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 to before d850e34c73175f5d7860b17f4810fcb6e5ab8727` (git)
  - affected: `973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 to before 0fa8630506f36374911772647bc5bcfeb47c5195` (git)
  - affected: `973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 to before be58b239d2be5da7a7fac11d3eb8bf75dce6511b` (git)
  - affected: `973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 to before bbc7de352f3f3864369c904aac944c7de84c6e7b` (git)
  - affected: `973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 to before c42ce5373405ca93946311652c51ccfeb1c2d913` (git)
  - affected: `973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 to before 673f707518e8ef03306f84c512cb160971f175fe` (git)
  - affected: `973bb97e5aee56edddaae3d5c96877101ad509c0 to before 40eb4b18ad167b63644c27fa67a7400ba050379a` (git)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `4.3`
  - unaffected: `before 4.3` (semver)
  - unaffected: `5.10.273 to 5.10.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `5.15.224 to 5.15.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.1.191 to 6.1.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.12.113 to 6.12.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.18.56 to 6.18.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `7.2.10 to 7.2.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `7.3 to *, inclusive` (original_commit_for_fix)
  - Other versions: affected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

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

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 7 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

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-98732](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98732)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-98732](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98732)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/162bb126d5c07a0150a171f8f3f1996e445922b3>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d850e34c73175f5d7860b17f4810fcb6e5ab8727>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fa8630506f36374911772647bc5bcfeb47c5195>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be58b239d2be5da7a7fac11d3eb8bf75dce6511b>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbc7de352f3f3864369c904aac944c7de84c6e7b>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c42ce5373405ca93946311652c51ccfeb1c2d913>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/673f707518e8ef03306f84c512cb160971f175fe>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40eb4b18ad167b63644c27fa67a7400ba050379a>

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.

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