# CVE-2026-90016: staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw\_restruct\_wmm\_ie()

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.6.160, 6.12.112, 6.18.52, 7.2.5
- Published: 2026-09-16 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.12
- Kernel (Linux): from 4.12.0, fixed in 6.6.160; from 6.7.0, fixed in 6.12.112; from 6.13.0, fixed in 6.18.52; from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.2.5

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie() rtw_restruct_wmm_ie() scans in_ie for a WMM IE with: while (i < in_len) { ... if (i + 5 < in_len && in_ie[i] == 0xDD && ...) { ... break; } i += (in_ie[i + 1] + 2); /* to the next IE element */ } When the "i + 5 < in_len" match check fails simply because i is within 5 bytes of the end of the buffer (i.e. no WMM IE was found near the tail of in_ie), execution falls through to "i += (in_ie[i + 1] + 2)", which reads in_ie[i + 1]. If i == in_len - 1 at that point, this is a 1-byte out-of-bounds read of an attacker-influenced IE buffer built from association/scan data. Commit a75281626fc8f ("staging: rtl8723bs: fix potential out-of-bounds read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie") added the "i + 5 < in_len" guard to the match condition itself, but did not add an equivalent guard before the fallthrough advance, so the same class of OOB read remained reachable through the non-matching path. Add an explicit bounds check before advancing to the next IE.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c1f8bada613edbd810d010996d36159092576d5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55034fa38bd8b302ceb32c15e8a98298f56f629b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8d76480d1abbbf617c2d6d9f60bf95ab45cff04
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/716850842d2f103f915fe7c857ff1a0a036491b4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e63b72c5d7336981dfc05e5cb92becff29dfea00
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4420cc71841b50e31a7868ef7acb011c0e08d294
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd19b8895f8a91087e8a62f1e27b128025dabb95
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28a289beaf226b30b1e6e7d7b1a2946fe2d6e852

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