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CVE-2026-9263

Out-of-bounds read in Bluetooth Controller ISOAL framed RX reassembly leaks adjacent memory into host HCI ISO packets

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KEV checked 14/11/2026, 20:55:32 UTC
zephyr · CVSS:3.1 · 6.5
Assessment vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity

medium6.5

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Remediation

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What this means

Zephyr Bluetooth controller has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in ISOAL framed RX reassembly, affecting versions 3.0.0 to 4.3.0 and 4.4.0, allowing a remote attacker to trigger information disclosure and potential denial of service. The flaw is due to insufficient validation of the length field in a framed ISO PDU start segment. An attacker can exploit this via the air interface.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

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Affected versions

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zephyrproject · zephyr

zephyr

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affected

3.3.0 → before 4.3.1

semver versions

4.4.0 → before 4.4.1

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unknown

Other versions: unaffected

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zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr · security/advisories/GHSA-6gvp-pmh8-fjh2 ↗Attributed to CISA-ADP

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The Zephyr Bluetooth controller ISO Adaptation Layer (subsys/bluetooth/controller/ll_sw/isoal.c) fails to validate the length field of a framed ISO PDU start segment. Per the Bluetooth specification a start segment (sc=0) always carries a 3-byte time_offset, so its segment-header len must be at least PDU_ISO_SEG_TIMEOFFSET_SIZE (3). isoal_check_seg_header() accepted start segments with len < 3 as valid, and isoal_rx_framed_consume() then computed length = seg_hdr->len - 3 in a uint8_t, underflowing to 253-255 when len is 0-2. That oversized length is passed to isoal_rx_append_to_sdu(), whose copy is clamped only against the destination SDU buffer size, not the source PDU length, so up to ~255 bytes of controller memory beyond the received PDU are copied (via sink_sdu_write_hci()/net_buf_add_mem) into an HCI ISO data packet and delivered to the host. The PDU and its segment headers are entirely attacker-controlled and arrive over the air, reachable through both the CIS and BIS-sync HCI data paths (hci_driver.c) and the vendor data path (ull_iso.c), so a remote CIS peer or a broadcaster the device is synced to can trigger an out-of-bounds read causing information disclosure to the host and potential denial of service (faults or malformed oversized HCI ISO packets). The flaw affects all Zephyr releases since framed ISO reception was introduced in v3.0.0. The fix rejects sc=0 segments with len < 3 in isoal_check_seg_header() and adds a guard before the subtraction in isoal_rx_framed_consume().

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CVE-2026-9263

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Contributing organizations · 2
zephyr

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2026-11-04
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Additional data publisher

2026-06-30

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