Medium severity · published Jun 25, 2026
CVE-2026-53208
Bluetooth: L2CAP: reject BR/EDR signaling packets over MTUsig
5.5
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: L2CAP: reject BR/EDR signaling packets over MTUsig
net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:l2cap_sig_channel() accepts BR/EDR
signaling packets up to the channel MTU and dispatches each command
without enforcing the signaling MTU (MTUsig). A Bluetooth BR/EDR peer
within radio range can send a fixed-channel CID 0x0001 packet that is
larger than MTUsig and contains many L2CAP_ECHO_REQ commands before
pairing. In a real-radio stock-kernel run, one 681-byte signaling
packet containing 168 zero-length ECHO_REQ commands made the target
transmit 168 ECHO_RSP frames over about 220 ms.
Impact: a Bluetooth BR/EDR peer within radio range, before pairing, can
force 168 ECHO_RSP frames from one 681-byte fixed-channel signaling
packet containing packed ECHO_REQ commands.
Define Linux's BR/EDR signaling MTU as the spec minimum of 48 bytes and
reject any larger signaling packet with one L2CAP_COMMAND_REJECT_RSP
carrying L2CAP_REJ_MTU_EXCEEDED before any command is dispatched.
The Bluetooth Core spec wording for MTUExceeded says the reject
identifier shall match the first request command in the packet, and
that packets containing only responses shall be silently discarded.
Linux intentionally deviates from that prescription: silently
discarding desynchronizes the peer because the remote stack never
learns its responses were dropped, and locating the first request
command requires walking command headers past MTUsig, i.e. processing
bytes from a packet we have already decided is too large to process.
We therefore always emit one reject and use the identifier from the
first command header, a single fixed-offset byte read.
The unrestricted BR/EDR signaling parser and ECHO_REQ response path both
trace to the initial git import; no later introducing commit is
available for a Fixes tag.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 2% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
2.6.12.1 before 5.10.259; 5.11 before 5.15.210; 5.16 before 6.1.176; 6.2 before 6.6.143; 6.7 before 6.12.94; 6.13 before 6.18.36; +12 more · source: NVD
LI
Linux · Linux
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before e05c4ac575b457978a7ef441053394169084869c; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before fa5823126239b3e453fac1a2fe50726c7f4a55e1; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before b20e8a98dd29b121f58fcdf51e8576119aba536a; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 214a2042b16b3c8d798a8b9ef9f36094f13a9859; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before a8335f3db15bd1e0e82e0db5d488fabc7d10d1ab; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before dedc92b96dc1d8919a3bdf2495ede68922ef7ebc; +3 more · source: vendor
SS
SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem · Siemens
0 · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53208
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53208
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/214a2042b16b3c8d798a8b9ef9f36094f13a9859
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8335f3db15bd1e0e82e0db5d488fabc7d10d1ab
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b20e8a98dd29b121f58fcdf51e8576119aba536a
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd214733544427587a95f66dbf3adff072568990
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dedc92b96dc1d8919a3bdf2495ede68922ef7ebc
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e05c4ac575b457978a7ef441053394169084869c
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