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CVE-2026-64441

staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB reads in rtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie(), and rtw_get_wps_attr()

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.15.212, 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, and 1 more
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB reads in rtw_get_sec_ie(), rtw_get_wapi_ie(), and rtw_get_wps_attr() Three IE/attribute parsing functions have missing bounds checks. rtw_get_sec_ie() and rtw_get_wapi_ie() iterate over a raw IE buffer without verifying that the header bytes (tag + length) are within the remaining buffer before reading them. Additionally, rtw_get_sec_ie() compares the 4-byte WPA OUI at cnt+2 without checking that at least 6 bytes remain, and rtw_get_wapi_ie() compares a 4-byte WAPI OUI at cnt+6 without checking that at least 10 bytes remain. rtw_get_wps_attr() reads wps_ie[0] and wps_ie+2 unconditionally at entry, before verifying that wps_ielen is large enough to contain the 6-byte WPS IE header (element_id + length + 4-byte OUI). Inside the attribute loop, get_unaligned_be16() is called on attr_ptr and attr_ptr+2 without checking that 4 bytes remain in the buffer. Add a cnt+2 bounds check before each loop body in rtw_get_sec_ie() and rtw_get_wapi_ie(), guard each multi-byte comparison with a minimum IE length requirement, add a wps_ielen < 6 early return in rtw_get_wps_attr(), and add a 4-byte bounds check in its inner loop.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b · fixed in efa27d487abcdec79669a60a6d94d5d6eceb7c1d; From 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b · fixed in 2ea1ce30ead61589214240e8d33d96310fd613e5; From 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b · fixed in b27ecba3196f6c14e3809595ebd69c0c2392512a; From 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b · fixed in 6ab1161e539fb7a1c8b35ff5a6ced4702e855b9c; From 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b · fixed in 4b51ee8a40fe47864197d73cc02b191de7a6b072; From 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b · fixed in 729c4e72563bda0f1725db1db9ea08df06f41d9b; From 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b · fixed in 1463ca3ec6601cbb097d8d87dbf5dcf1cb86a344

  • Linux Linux

    4.12

  • KernelLinux

    From 4.12.0 · fixed in 5.15.212; From 5.16.0 · fixed in 6.1.178; From 6.2.0 · fixed in 6.6.145; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.97; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.40; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.1.4

References 7

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