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        "cveId": "CVE-2026-64573",
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        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-07-19T15:36:31.797Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-08-05T08:08:09.669Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-08-19T16:28:52.002Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: qca: fix NVM tag length underflow in TLV parser\n\nIn the TLV_TYPE_NVM branch of qca_tlv_check_data() the tag loop bound is\n\"while (idx < length - sizeof(struct tlv_type_nvm))\". \"length\" is a signed\nint from the firmware TLV header and sizeof(struct tlv_type_nvm) is a\nsize_t (12), so \"length\" is converted to size_t and any firmware-supplied\n\"length\" < 12 makes the subtraction wrap to a huge value. The loop body\nthen reads a 12-byte struct tlv_type_nvm past the end of the short\nvmalloc'd firmware buffer (and the EDL_TAG_ID_* handlers can write past it).\n\nRewrite the bound as \"idx + sizeof(struct tlv_type_nvm) <= length\"; both\noperands are non-negative, so it no longer underflows and a \"length\" too\nsmall for one record correctly skips the loop.\n\n  BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in qca_download_firmware.isra.0 (drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c:421)\n  Read of size 2 at addr ffffc900000e5004 by task kworker/u9:0/52\n  Workqueue: hci0 hci_power_on\n  Call Trace:\n   ...\n   kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595)\n   qca_download_firmware.isra.0 (drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c:421 drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c:617)\n   qca_uart_setup (drivers/bluetooth/btqca.c:948)\n   qca_setup (drivers/bluetooth/hci_qca.c:2029)\n   hci_uart_setup (drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c:438)\n   hci_dev_open_sync (net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5227)\n   hci_power_on (net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:920)\n   process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3322)\n   worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3486)\n   kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)\n   ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158)\n   ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245)"
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