CVE-2025-71234

wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Feb 18, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Feb 18, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add

The driver does not set hw->sta_data_size, which causes mac80211 to allocate insufficient space for driver private station data in __sta_info_alloc(). When rtl8xxxu_sta_add() accesses members of struct rtl8xxxu_sta_info through sta->drv_priv, this results in a slab-out-of-bounds write.

KASAN report on RISC-V (VisionFive 2) with RTL8192EU adapter:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add+0x31c/0x346 Write of size 8 at addr ffffffd6d3e9ae88 by task kworker/u16:0/12

Set hw->sta_data_size to sizeof(struct rtl8xxxu_sta_info) during probe, similar to how hw->vif_data_size is configured. This ensures mac80211 allocates sufficient space for the driver's per-station private data.

Tested on StarFive VisionFive 2 v1.2A board.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • eef55f1545c92c7181d5083453dee1296298ad3e to before 5d810ba377eddee95d30766d360a14efbb3d1872Affected
  • eef55f1545c92c7181d5083453dee1296298ad3e to before 116f7bd8160c6b37d1c6939385abf90f6f6ed2f5Affected
  • eef55f1545c92c7181d5083453dee1296298ad3e to before 9a0f3fa6ecd0c9c32dbc367a57482bbf7c7d25bfAffected
  • eef55f1545c92c7181d5083453dee1296298ad3e to before 86c946bcc00f6390ef65e9614ae60a9377e454f8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.9Affected
  • before 6.9Not affected
  • 6.12.72 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.11 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.1 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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