CVE-2026-31497: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btusb: clamp SCO altsetting table indices btusb_work() maps the number of active SCO links to USB alternate settings through a three-entry lookup table when CVSD traffic uses transparent voice settings. The lookup currently indexes alts[] with data->sco_num - 1 without first constraining sco_num to the number of available table entries. While the table only defines alternate settings for up to three SCO links, data->sco_num comes from hci_conn_num() and is used directly. Cap the lookup to the last table entry before indexing it so the driver keeps selecting the highest supported alternate setting without reading past alts[].

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.8.1, before 5.10.253 (fixed in 5.10.253); from 5.11, before 5.15.203 (fixed in 5.15.203); from 5.16, before 6.1.168 (fixed in 6.1.168); from 6.2, before 6.6.131 (fixed in 6.6.131); from 6.7, before 6.12.80 (fixed in 6.12.80); from 6.13, before 6.18.21 (fixed in 6.18.21); …

Published 2026-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.